Applications for the 2025-26 cohort will open in late April, 2025.
Meet our 2024-2025 Women's Policy Institute cohort!
The Women's Policy Institute (WPI) is a professional development and leadership program designed to develop policy, advocacy, and strategic communications skills among women who are interested in influencing the policymaking process.
Every year from August through May, WPI trains individuals across the state of Rhode Island on how to draft legislation and advocate for policies that will help make our state an equitable place to live for women and girls.
The members of these cohorts come from all walks of life and have many different experience levels in policy work.
Alumni include:
30% of our alumni work in nonprofits and another 20% have government roles; several note the program helped them within their professions.
WPI fellows have successfully created positive change by advocating for: paid family leave and pregnancy accommodations in the workplace, codifing Roe vs. Wade through the Reproductive Privacy Act and repealing the tampon tax, policies which have now been signed into law on a state-wide level.
WPI cultivates skills for shaping policy-making at the state level with the goal of increasing the number of female leaders in the state who are actively involved in influencing and applying policies for an equitable Rhode Island. One of these women could be you!
