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In this chapter, we explore how young women activists from Myanmar have been able to carve out new spaces and forms of leadership while in exile in Thailand. Having fled from armed conflict and ethnic persecution, women exiles have founded a vibrant, multi-ethnic women’s movement in the border areas surrounding Myanmar. From its inception, this movement made leadership training – specifically targeting young women – a key feature of its activism. We examine the impact of these training programmes on the lives of women activists, and trace how graduates of these programmes have moved on to lead in ways that have created social and political change within exiled oppositional politics and diaspora communities in Thailand. We analyse how the recent return of exiled activists and oppositional groups to Myanmar reshapes the conditions for young women’s leadership, presenting formerly exiled activists …