For 38 years, SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) was a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women. On July 1, 2025, SEED moved its operations to the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC). For the latest information on SEED, visit its website.

In 1987, Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., founded the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, affirming her belief that teachers could be leaders of their own professional development.

Since then, SEED has partnered with communities, organizations, and institutions in bringing people together to learn through self reflection, build relationships through structured dialogue, and create change through systemic analysis. It provides transformational professional development that prepares leaders to facilitate conversations that drive social change within their institutions.

While it was a program of WCW, SEED trained more than 4,000 leaders from 1,200 partner sites—including preK-12 and university educators, parents, community leaders, and other public employees from 45 U.S. states and 15 countries. SEED’s directors over the years provided visionary leadership: Peggy McIntosh, Emily Style, Brenda Flyswithhawks, Gail Cruise-Roberson, Emmy Howe, Jondou Chase Chen, Ruth Condori-Aragón, and Motoko L. Maegawa.

Now at SESEC, SEED continues its critical work of creating conversational communities that drive social change. It lives on at WCW in the way we all approach conversations, the way we understand people and institutions, and the way we seek to make the world a better place.

Learn more at nationalseedproject.org.