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Deepening the Foundations for Equity and Renewal

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BLI Peace Leadership Retreat in Detroit

Welcome the 2021-22 Mindful Leader Fellowship cohort!

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Seithur Sanitation Initiative receives the MLK Spirit Award

Foundations in Leadership, a Peer Facilitator Perspective

Heart-Centered Leadership with Rebecca Irby

Learning to Lead with Compassion: A Mindful Leadership Retreat

Okanagan Charter

M-LEAD Leadership Lens Feature: Kaitlyn Colyer

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Capstone Boot Camp 2021

Mindful Leader Reflection

The Peer Facilitator Leadership Experience

BLI Offers COVID-19 Hardship Grants

Announcing the BLI's 2021 Capstone Cohort

What's Happening in the Lab

ALA 175: Foundations in Leadership

Stand Against Asian Violence

BLI Hosts Alumni Panel

BLI Advanced Fellow featured in M-LEAD's Leadership Lens Series!

Two BLI Advanced Fellows Receive the Renowned MLK Spirit Award

Announcing the Break Away Podcast!

Capstone 3D Virtual Gallery

What's Happening in the Lab?

Pause, Reflect, and Create

Leading Life with Dignity: A Challenge of Our Time

Leading Mindfully

From Leadership Lab, to Peer Facilitator, to Program Assistant

Reflecting Back and Looking Forward

A Senior's Reflection on Peer Facilitating

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Meet our 2020 Leadership Lab Teams!

Learning to be an Effective Leader

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Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive and Mindful Society with Mirabai Bush

Project Healthy Schools Global

Channeling Mindfulness

Being a good leader is knowing when to practice gratitude

The Mindful Leaders Retreat — Laying a Foundation

In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders

A Conversation on Mindfulness, Bias and Racial Justice — a podcast with Ram Mahalingam

Capstone Bootcamp 2019

BLI Director, Ram Mahalingam featured in the Record

From Freshman to Senior Year -- Four Years of Leadership Learning

BLI Students Start Small and Dream Big in Detroit

Dinners with...

The Peer Facilitator Experience

Introducing the 2019 Capstone Teams

The Mindful Leader - Becoming an Engaged Leader

BLI Speaker Series: Food For Thought

The Capstone Experience with the Migrant Education Initiative

A Weekend of Mindful Leadership

Ram Mahalingam's award winning film to be screened at two film festivals.

BLI Hosts Voting Guru Nancy Thomas

BLI Across the Pond

BLI welcomes new director!

Welcome to the 2018 Capstone Cohort!

Tales of Leadership: The Advanced Fellows Journey

The 2018 London Ideas Project is Announced

Congrats to BLI partner Sandra Levitsky for being awarded the Golden Apple!

Keep Calm and Lead On

Congrats to BLI Fellow and Peer Facilitator Elisabeth Benham

BLI to Co-Host ‘Extreme by Design’ Film Screening, Discussion

BLI Hires a New Assistant Director

Former Jet Blue CEO donates $10 million to Barger Leadership Institute

BLI announces a new Access Opportunity

Barger Leadership Institute is moving!

BLI Announces New Partnership with The London Idea

BLI Congratulates Mya Haynes

BLI awards Small Grant for Halfway Hijabi event

BLI Launches New Fellows Program Structure

BLI Alumni Receive 2015-2016 Fulbright Honor

BLI Launches New Capstone Experience

BLI Fellow Wins Wolverine Tank Pitch Contest

My Experience at the Human Trafficking Conference

BLI Featured in UM Development's Leaders & Best Magazine

Congratulations to Oscar Ybarra as the New Director of Innovate Blue

BLI Student Project Highlighted in LSA Magazine

Lessons and Reflections: My Journey as an Aspiring Journalist

New BLI Student Project Featured in Albanian American News

Entrepreneur Jonathan Carson to Give Talk to BLI

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MIT Energy Business Bootcamp 2013

BLI Director Featured in UM's LSA Magazine

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Reflections from Washington, D.C. - BLI Global Internship at the U.S. State Department

Reflections From Kenya

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BLI Fellows Program Alum Making A Difference as White House Intern

BLI Awards Two New Student Project Grants

Congratulations to the Summer 2012 Global Internship Award Recipients

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BLI Supported Student Project Finalist for White House Campus Champions of Change Challenge

New Photo Albums Up Now!

Colleen Earl Speaks to Young Women Leaders in Organizational Studies

Congratulations to the 2011-12 Faculty-Student Research Team Grant Recipients

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New Fellows Program Rolls Out

First Steps at The Second Step

Congratulations to the Winter 2011 Global Scholarship Recipients

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