Girls Leadership is thrilled to welcome our newest board member, Renae Griffin! Ms. Griffin has over 30 years of experience in the investment management industry. In 2017, she joined GCM Grosvenor as an Executive responsible for strategic development and expansion of the firm’s small, emerging, and diverse manager investment platform. She also serves on …
Girls Leadership is thrilled to announce our latest board member, Pat Gillette! Pat Gillette is one of the country’s leading experts and most sought-after speakers on gender diversity and equality. Rated as a top employment litigator and trial lawyer by Chambers and other organizations for 40 years and as a leader and rainmaker in …
Girls Leadership is thrilled to announce our newest board member, Wendi Williams! Celebrated scholar, author, and educator, Dr. Wendi Williams has committed her life’s work to educate teachers, institutions, policymakers, advocates, and the general public on the intersection of education and psychology. Her work threads the intersection of psychology and education with black women’s liberatory …
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 …
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 …
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 …
