Maps to Mandalas: Nurturing New Narratives of the Caring City

Transportation systems quietly shape leadership equity, disproportionately constraining women caregivers whose caregiving travel is misread as a lack of leadership readiness. The proposed initiative responds with a narrative-driven systems change approach that reframes caregiving and mobility barriers as structural forces. By convening cross-sector women leaders to align on shared goals, make invisible stories visible, build power, and co-create new leadership narratives, the initiative expands who is seen, valued and advanced as leaders nationwide.