Abstract
We examined the effects of students’ participation in multicultural or identity-based organizations on students’ prosocial leadership development. Using propensity score matching from a matched sample of 4,688 college students who completed the 2021 Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL), we found that participation in multicultural and identity-based organizations has a positive and significant effect on students’ social change behaviors, sociocultural conversations, and social generativity. Multicultural and identity-based organizations are not only essential spaces for identity development and belonging, but the findings also suggest that these organizations are crucial for developing prosocial leadership capacities among college students.