The focus of FKI is on personal and leadership development for girls and women at transition points in life through supportive, innovative, educational programs including conferences and camps, talking and healing circles, transformational journeys, coaching and mentoring, and more.

FKI is dedicated to research, programs, and advocacy for the education of Latinas and American Indian girls and women of the Borderlands (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas). We seek to improve the status of women of the Borderlands via a multifaceted approach of education, leadership programs, and social action research that will impact legislation and provide greater economic opportunities for women, their families, and their communities.

We work specifically with girls and women in transition:
* from elementary to middle to high school to college
* from community college to university
* reentering communities after incarceration
* changing career paths, partnership paths, life paths
* reentering the academic world