Women and Leadership Archives

The Women and Leadership Archives Youtube channel brings you access to historic documents, images, videos, and recordings from our collections related to women’s lives and contributions. You will also find videos on how to use archives, behind the scenes looks at what archivists do, and stories of people and events documented in our collections.

What is the WLA?

Established in 1994, the Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) collects and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women’s organizations, which document women’s lives, roles, and contributions. Collection strengths include activism and women’s issues, authors, education, social justice, women religious, art, and more. The WLA also holds the records of Mundelein College, the last four-year Catholic women's college in Illinois.

The WLA is part of the Ann Ida Gannon, BVM Center for Women and Leadership and the Loyola University Chicago Libraries.

For more information, visit https://www.luc.edu/wla/