Through prose, poetry, and art, our Girls Leadership Girl Advisory Board voices their thoughts on what it means to have Kamala Harris as Vice President. Where to start? I am so so proud of VP Harris because watching her makes me feel like the world is widening for girls like me. Before Tiana, my favorite …
Thursday, Jan. 28 Designing the Future Workforce: Black and Latinx Women are Ready to Lead 1 PM PT/4 PM ET According to our Ready to Lead report, Black and Latinx girls are the most ambitious and most prepared leaders compared to other ethnic groups. Early in life they face external challenges with a teaching force …
Today we’re celebrating a leader who is making others better as a result of her presence and making that impact last in her absence. Meet Ms. Adrianne Warlick What is your role? And how do you currently work with girls? I’m a high school English teacher at Girls Academic Leadership Academy; I teach English …
Rachel Simmons and Simone Marean, Co-founders of Girls Leadership, put together a list of books for parents & girls of all ages.
Some folks are perfecting their sourdough, others are getting fit, but for Girls Leadership Co-CEO Takai Tyler, there was no choice, in this pandemic she was going to up her adolescent parenting game. Here are eight of her takeaways (so far), including when screen time is the solution for wellness. “I was reading all these …
Practicing an Emotional Intelligence Workout is at the core of everything we teach at Girls Leadership. That’s because Emotional Intelligence, or EI, is pretty much the core skill of everything in life. We’re not even being hyperbolic here. This is what we mean by EI: Do you know what you feel? Do you respect what you …
Learn five small, achievable, and integrable actions to address parent burnout. It is okay not to be okay right now. For many of us, this is the biggest emotional test we have faced. But parents can’t just stand in their front yard screaming “This is a disaster!” all day. They can’t escape to a spa …
I consider myself an agent of social justice, and as someone always looking for new opportunities to grow, learn, and empower marginalized communities, your six-week program immediately piqued my interests. -Sierra Leone Anderson In September, we received a particularly memorable scholarship letter for our LeadHERship Club. We immediately knew we had to accept, and not …
An Emotional Emergency Kit is a set of emotional wellness tools and can include some of the following activities that you can share with your family or class to build emotional resilience and connection. Emotional Emergency Kit An Emotional Emergency Kit (just like a Disaster Emergency Kit) is designed to provide the necessary supplies to …
As a former social worker and a leadership coach, I’ve been crafting the art of question-asking for decades, and I know there is nothing more limiting to creating connection than asking the standard “How are you?” or “How was your day?” During shelter in place, in an attempt to lure my son out of his …
