Leadership Programs
& Courses
When I first gained access to a top graduate school— focusing on women's studies and religious history—I could not believe the knowledge on offer when one learned the legacies of how women created change in society. Most were without structural power, so they built power through coalitionary practices across differences of race, class, and religion. Many were fueled by spiritual commitments. I knew I wanted to spend my life researching this history and making it available to others.
While memory of their leadership has been erased, we live in the fruits of their bravery—from labor rights laws, to racial justice, to gender-based human rights.
For 15 years, I have created adult learning programs outside the university to bring alive their memory. I teach doctors, journalists, nurses, therapists, teachers, priests, rabbis, and philanthropists the implications of feminist study. ​​​ Since 2020, with the rise of white Christian nationalism, I have focused on empowering the U.S. religious left with feminist knowledge to build a flourishing multiracial, multireligious democracy. ​​
Opening the Enclosures
of Academia
—Where I was trained—
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies (UC San Diego)
M.A. Ethnic Studies (UC San Diego)
Visiting Scholar (Columbia University)
M.A. Religious History (Yale Divinity School)
Postgraduate Fellow (Yale University)
2-year Ph.D. Fellow in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (University British Columbia)
2-years of study in Counseling Psychology (Seattle School of Theology and Psychology)
Open Enrollment Nov 1-Dec 18​
Winter 2025 Programs & Online, Cohort-Based Curriculum
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The following courses are part of cohort-based professional development programs to equip leaders working toward a vision of a feminist, multireligious, multiracial democracy. The courses support clergy and lay leaders with practices of formation that weave spiritual reflection, history and social theory, and justice-making. Contact Dr. George for registration. Cohorts begin in early 2026.​
​Caliban and the Witch in a Time of Covid-19
(self-study, cohort based, 12 months of access starting 1/1/26)
The most popular course for women church leaders for 5 years running, Caliban and the Witch is for small groups of women clergy or lay leaders. In a series of online audio lectures and through an in-depth course workbook with contemplative writing exercises, this class teaches women about the entwined histories of racial capitalism and exploitation of women's invisible gendered labor. The class creates a space for honest and much needed conversations on how patriarchy and white supremacy intersect with the abuses of capitalism—but it also gives tools for community-based practices that embody beloved community. This is an excellent class for building frameworks for how to have hard conversations that attend to systemic and historical violence. It is also a vital class for encouraging contemplative learning and creativity as part of midwifing a more justice world.
Men Learning Feminism
(self-study, cohort based, 12 months of access starting 1/1/26)
First launched in 2021, Men Learning Feminism is a course that invites male clergy and lay leaders into feminist learning and leadership. The course is led by male clergy who are facilitators with the online course lectures and written materials. The feminism taught in this course is one that encourages men to self-reflect on all the intersections of their own identity, as well as to develop contemplative practices for attending to how patriarchy (and racial and class-based hierarchies) have shaped their lives and the lives of women and nonbinary people around them. This course asks participants for courage, vulnerability, and creativity—but men who are willing to engage its depths are given transformative tools to work toward a world of more flourishing for everyone.
Spiritual Autobiography / Contemplative Reading
(taught live, 7-week course, Jan 12-March 2, 2026)
Drawing from fields as diverse as Pauli Murray studies; Jewish feminist history; Muslim feminist history; and Indigenous studies, this course provides readings that support not only reconnection with feminist foremothers, but also a map for creative awakening in the form of contemplative reading and writing practices. Participants will be asked to write and share 300 words a week, based on writing prompts that are interconnected to course texts. More information is found here.
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