To honor the debut of Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Walt Disney Company awarded funding to partners that provide providing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and arts education to young people through its Future Storytellers initiative. Awardees include Ghetto Film School and Girls Who Code. Ghetto Film School provides nine courses in film […]
The Coca-Cola Foundation will support ChildFund Uganda in launching the “Women and Youth Economic Empowerment” project that has the goal of empowering women and youth through teaching them sustainable skills. Dr. Charles Luwaga the ChildFund Uganda Programs and Sponsorship Director stated that they have received roughly $150,000 from the Coca-Cola Foundation in order to implement […]
A conference that was put together in order to give young women ages 12-17 a more improved way of being educated, motivated, and inspired. The conference also has something for parents, with a parenting workshop to learn how to help empower their children and themselves. The event is called the Girl Power Conference and is […]
Fifty-two elementary school girls took part in Girls on the Run in the Wood River Valley this fall. The girls were able to participate in 10 afterschool sessions where they played games and discussed topics meant to uplift their self-esteem and teach positive traits. On Saturday, the attendees showed up to a Happy Hair Station […]
On Wednesday, at the 56th annual CMA Awards Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson performed “You’re Drunk, Go Home,” together, punching it up with girl power. They took the stage in coordinating denim outfits to sing along together. The track was originally featured on Ballerini’s album Subject to Change, that was released in September. […]
One in five women in college are struggling to afford period supplies, something that many low income girls face who don’t have access to hygienic products. LSU alumni, Sherin Dawud and Raina Vallot started a non-profit organization, Power Pump Girls Inc., to bring women together in the Baton Rouge community. Raina explained how, “This ‘Power […]
Andrea J. Campbell, who was once a Mattapan City Councilor, jumped into a political league on Tuesday when Massachusetts voters elected her Attorney General, the first Black woman to hold that constitutional office. Campbell, 40 years old, was first elected to the Boston City Council in 2015, told a crowd of supporters at the Fairmont […]
Coach Janet Pinkett from Girls Rule the Court, a program where girls ages 7-13 are coached by all women, and come from all over to learn the game, stated that “There’s a social, emotional component and then there’s tennis, so they’re learning the basics of tennis and they’re having fun, The program is designed to […]
With the aim of inspiring young women to take part in STEM programs, the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce, and Walbec Group, collaborated to host Smart Girls Rock! Approximately 100 freshman, sophomore, and junior female students from multiple Fox Cities area schools attended the one day only event at Walbec Group where they were able […]
The auto tech foreman at South San Antonio Carmen Hernandez is a senior shop foreman for the Auto Tech 2 class this school year, and is making history as one of the first female students to be in a leadership position in the program. Hernandez stated that, “It’s an honor because knowing that I’m one […]