The Center for Leadership and Justice develops and organizes leaders in neighborhood-based and multi-faith alliances to build power and act collectively for systemic change toward social, racial, and economic justice. It is headquartered in the Upper Albany neighborhood of Hartford and responds to social justice issues through organizing within Hartford neighborhoods and through GHIAA, the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance.

GHIAA is an initiative of the Center for Leadership & Justice. GHIAA is a broad-based organization of diverse faith communities and allied institutions organizing together for justice in the Greater Hartford Region.

Founded in 2019 with 35 member institutions, GHIAA has grown to include a current total of 52 congregations.

GHIAA is intentionally diverse in religion, race, geography, and socioeconomics. They are Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, Quaker, and Unitarian Universalist. They are Black, brown, white, and multiracial. They are urban, suburban, and rural. They are historic and new, traditional and contemporary, large and small, and in between.

Together, they develop leaders, build relationships, share their stories, and use their collective power to make concrete changes in their communities.