Leadership and
the Good Life Hub
The Leadership and the Good Life Hub focuses on expanding the Life Worth Living (LWL) network to both Leadership Studies programs and those with a focus on leadership in the curriculum. The LWL network is an initiative of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Our Hub aims to connect educators around the world interested in innovative, meaningful and effective curricula on leadership. We work to achieve this through: new instructor outreach, continuing education for LWL instructors (integrating leadership studies and LWL curricula concepts), creating and sharing resources for leadership educators to employ LWL concepts and to develop LWL classes at their institutions, and convening LWL conferences and continuing education activities within leadership studies.
Learn more about the Live Worth Living Project
The project is directed by
Dr. Zachary C. Wooten, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and
Dr. Matthew Pierlott, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department
with support from The Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance.
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Summer 2025
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About the
Life Worth Living Network - Video
The Life Worth Living Network offers fellowships to encourage undergraduate education on enduring questions about the shape of flourishing life. We connect faculty and graduate students like you, who seek to design and facilitate courses that equip students for the lifelong process of discerning the good life. Together, we envision an educational landscape in which students and faculty learn alongside each other how to ask and respond to life’s biggest questions.
Fellowship Opportunities
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Good Life Fellows
Skye Dreher
Skye is an undergraduate majoring in Integrative Biology in the Honors College at West Chester University. As an Interfaith Leadership Fellow, Skye helps promote understanding and connection across diverse faith and belief traditions through community engagement and outreach. Her interest in interfaith work began through her involvement with Young Life in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, where she first saw how faith and community can bring people together.
Through the Interfaith Leadership Fellowship, Skye has developed a deeper appreciation for collaboration among people of all religious, spiritual, and philosophical backgrounds. She looks forward to continuing to strengthen her communication and leadership skills while working with community partners.
Outside of her fellowship, Skye is a Girl Scout Silver and Gold Award recipient who enjoys spending time with friends and finding new ways to make a positive impact in her community.
Fun fact: Skye once helped organize a campus-wide event supporting a local shelter through wellness care packages and student-led outreach.
Liam McDonnell (He/Him)
Liam is an undergraduate majoring in business management. As an Interfaith Leadership
Fellow,, Liam is responsible for the social media outreach to the West Chester community.
Liam attended Catholic school and the opportunity to think about the impact of religion
on identity sparked his interest to join the Interfaith Leadership Fellowship. Liam
is looking forward to work with community partners and different religious leaders
to improve his communication skills. Becoming an interfaith fellow has allowed Liam
to gain the knowledge working with people of all different religious, spiritual, and
philosophical backgrounds. Liam spends most of his time hanging out with his friends
and takes part in a fundraising group called the Ancient Order of The Hibernians.
This Irish group of men work in the Doylestown community and put together events for
those in need.
Fun Fact: Liam started all four years on his high school basketball team.
Faculty Highlight
Dr. Zachary Wooten, Dr. Matthew Pierlott, and WCU Alumna Lizzie Gittleson published an article in the Journal of Leadership Education about the first woman to be ordained as a Rabbi.
