Girls for a Change – Page 2

Reporting From the First Ever Tween Summit: Debra Moffitt for S.Y.

October 14, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 14, 2009 This past weekend, Denise Restauri and the AllyKatzz team launched the first ever National Tween Summit to see what's on the minds of preteen girls. I haven't figured out how to be two places at once yet, so I tapped KidsHealth.org editor, journalist and author Debra Moffitt who knows a LOT about "tweens" having recently written the book "The Pink Locker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: AllyKatzz, Debra Moffitt, Denise Restauri, Girl Child, Girl Effect, girls, Girls for a Change, Growing Up Girl, health, Health2.0, Jess Weiner, Kids, KidsHealth.org, leadership, One is Greater Than None, pink, Pink Locker Society, RESPECT, self confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, smart girls, tween summit, tweens, twixt and between, Vital voices, women, Womens-Sports-Foundation, WSF

Rachel Simmons Tonight at GunnHS, Palo Alto!

September 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Sept. 24, 2009 S.F. Bay Area readers, reminder Rachel Simmons is speaking TONIGHT for free at Palo Alto's Gunn High School (details here) about her new book The Curse of the Good Girl (living proof of same right here with yours truly, heh) I interviewed Rachel Simmons about what all has transpired in media and marketing since her decade of research on relational … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, be heard, bullying, Curse of the Good Girl, emotional intelligence, empowerment, girls, Girls for a Change, girls leadership, girls voices, girls-confidence, Gunn High School, ideals, Kids, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Odd Girl Out, overachievers, perfect, preteens, Queen bees, Rachel Simmons, relational aggression, RESPECT, Rosalind Wiseman, self-worth, Stepford wives, super girls, SuperGirl, youth, youth voices

Childhood Matters Radio Show: Raising Strong, Healthy Girls Today

July 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

July 19, 2009 Here are some of the brand new resources or lesser known resources I named on the air today for those seeking SOLUTIONS rather than just identifying problems to get girls strong from the start and counter-act raising girls amidst "meat marketing"so pervasive today. TrueChild.org: Washington D.C. based advocacy org focusing specifically on these gender … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, athletes, Childhood Matters, Daughters.com, Early-Sexualization, Empowering girls, Feel Good Girl, Felicia Richardson Battle, Fem2.0, females, Frank W. Baker, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, Gender Roles, gifted girls, Girl Mogul, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls-Are-Champions, How I Look Journal, Jean Kilbourne, leaders, Lisa Izzi, media and women, Media Clearinghouse, Media stereotypes, media-literacy, Nan Dellheim, New Moon, Nurse Rona Renner, parenting, pink and blue, Pop-Culture, prime time TV, raising girls, Representation, Respect Rx, smart girls, So Sexy So Soon, teens, The Daddy Shift, The Girl Revolution, true child, tweens, women, women 2.0, women and media

Teen Girl Moguls & Social Entrepreneurs: What’s Your Story?

June 6, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

June 6, 2009 Calling all ‘young people who rock’ between the ages of 14-17...this is the final week to START to tell your tales in ‘Girls Helping Girls’ style (by June 15 to begin submissions, June 30 to finish them) to vy for the Youth Service America Gladys Coccia Award. Who is Gladys Marinelli Coccia? What’s her story? Let’s just say anyone who became a business woman at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Ashoka Youth Venture, Change.org, common good, DigiGirlz, female, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Lead Now, Gladys Coccia Award, Gladys Marinelli Coccia, GMS, green, hardy girls, healthy women, innovators, leaders, Project Global Cooling, Sejal Hathi, Sisters 4 Peace, Social entrepreneurs, teen change agents, teens, youth service america, YSA, YWCA

Brain Cake: Teen Girls Talk Tech & World Changing (Part Two)

January 29, 2009 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

Update Oct. 22, 2015 Reminder: BrainCake shifted to CanTEENgirl.org in 2011 with heavy hitting sponsorship as a project of Carnegie Science Center. CanTeen has some fun STEM career explorations, complete with games and DIY challenges to encourage science exploration, from invisible ink to OOBlek... Join @BrightGirlsCo @YellowScopeGirl @IamElemental Oct. 22, 2015 in a Twitter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: All Things Girl, Brain Based Biz, BrainCake, BrainCake.org, Brains, CanTeenGirl.org, Carengie Mellon University, Carnegie Science Center, Daughters, feminine, feminism, feminist, femme, geekery, Geeky Girl, girl power, Girl Talk Radio, girls, Girls for a Change, girls in tech, GirlTech, GMSP, Green-Teens, I Am Elemental, math, MIT Media Lab, nerd girls, NIS, npr, safe cosmetics, Saturday Light Brigade, Science, Science Friday, She's geeky, sisterhood, smart girls, STEM, technology, Teens Turning Green, The Girl Effect, women, women 2.0, women engineers, world changing, Youth-Media