Mandela's leadership lessons
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Richard Stengel ā a former top editor of TIME, and collaborator on Nelson Mandela's memoir, "Long Walk to Freedom" ā is helping launch a new school of leadership dedicated to the South African freedom fighter.
- The project is a joint effort with the UN, the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg and the City College of New York.
The Nelson Mandela Center for Social Change at CCNY, located in Manhattan, is "designed to create a new generation of leaders who, like Mandela, can solve problems and rifts that seem intractable," Stengel says.
- Stengel taped some 70 hours of interviews with Mandela in the 1990s that he turned into an audiobook. Stengel later served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy during the Obama administration.
Stengel says Mandela "cared deeply about fostering young leaders, and the Colin Powell School, with almost 4,000 students, half of whom are immigrants, 70% of whom are first-generation college students, 80% of whom are students of color, is the place to do it."
