Are you passionate about girls’ and women’s rights globally? Do you believe participation in sports like running can have a positive impact on personal empowerment and creating more equitable and healthy societies?  Are you looking for a way to apply your expertise to contribute meaningfully to grassroots efforts in challenging environments? We might have an opportunity that you should read about….

Free to Run is excited to be launching an OPEN CALL for people to serve on our Board of Directors in a voluntary capacity. We know there are a number of highly-qualified, insightful people who care deeply about girls’ and young women’s rights globally who would love to be on our Board, but aren’t in our current networks. As a social justice organization, we are interested in challenging traditional power structures and this notion of ‘tapping’ the privileged few who get to lead us in this capacity – it’s inconsistent with our perspective of equity. Furthermore, we know that growing the size and diversity of our team of leadership will be a powerful step towards transformational growth of this innovative organization. 

ABOUT FREE TO RUN

The mission of Free to Run is to advance gender equity globally through running. We are a registered nonprofit/nongovernmental organization that has been operating community-led programs for adolescent girls and young women since 2014. We are known for delivering long-term, youth-led, progressive running, leadership, rights and health programs directly to adolescent girls and young women living in conflict zones.

However, the longer-term impact of our work is building enduring social change – decreasing barriers to public participation, increasing women in leadership, and making power structures more equitable and inclusive. Free to Run identifies as an organization working at the intersections of feminism, human rights, development, and humanitarian interventions.