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Huffington Post Link: Diversity Data Shows Need to Focus on Women of Color
The floodgates holding back the tech industry’s dismal diversity data are now wide open. First Google, then LinkedIn and Yahoo, and now Facebook have soaked Silicon Valley watchers with what many of us already assumed: the tech community is mostly white and male. The statistics about racial and gender diversity in the technology field are
Girls Action Network Salutes 2014 GAN Scholars
New York, NY – Girls Action Network, Inc. is pleased to announce and salute its 2014 GAN Scholars as new cohorts to the GAN Summer Scholastic Enrichment Program (SSEP): Vinette Bristol (Brooklyn, New York), Leora Roberts (Gray, Georgia) and Kathyrn Spinks (Macon, Georgia). GAN Scholars Roberts and Spinks will attend the Wesleyan College Spectacles Summer
Girls Action Network Salutes 2013 GAN Scholars
New York, NY: July 1, 2013 – Girls Action Network, Inc. is pleased to announce and salute its 2013 GAN Scholars as new cohorts to the GAN Summer Scholastic Enrichment Program (SSEP): Adreanna Chester (Macon, Georgia), Enid Lovay (Newark, New Jersey), Sarah Martin (West Orange, New Jersey), Natori Nance (Hightstown, New Jersey) and Kathyrn Spinks
Girls Action Network Hosts Career Exploration 101 Workshop
New York, NY – On June 1, 2013, Girls Action Network (GAN) presented Career Exploration 101: Exploring Your Path Using Web-based Technology — an introductory, practical, age-appropriate program for female students (grades 6-11) identifying the skills, interests and values essential to exploring and planning one’s career and related educational paths – at St. Philip’s Academy
GAN – SGB Committee Hosted Mini-Conference at Temple University
Philadelphia, PA – The Girls Action Network SBG Committee hosted a mini-conference on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Temple University’s Ritter Annex, located at 1301 Cecil B Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Cost was $5 per student with breakfast-lunch included. The conference theme was “Unlocking Opportunities: Leadership, Education and Empowerment”
Girls Action Network Salutes Aarti Naik 2012 Girls Changemaker, India
New York, NY – Girls Action Network, Inc. (GAN) is pleased to salute a GAN Group affiliate, Aarti Naik, on her October 4, 2012 Vocational Excellence Award for Bringing the Light of Literacy and Motivating Girls Living Below the Poverty Line. Ms. Naik was presented this award by the Rotary Club of Bombay Seacoast. For
GAN – SGB Committee Hosts Mini-Conference on October 27
Philadelphia, PA – The Girls Action Network SBG Committee will host a mini-conference on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Temple University-s Ritter Annex, located at 1301 Cecil B Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Cost is $5 per student with breakfast and lunch included. The theme of the event is -“Unlocking
Sisters Giving BackSM Consolidates with Girls Action Network
New York, NY – Effective July 1, 2012, the Sisters Giving BackSM (SGB) group, an unincorporated nonprofit association consolidated with Girls Action Network, Inc. (GAN), a nonprofit corporation. In 2011, SGB was formed to deliver educational and career services to girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. GAN was founded in 2002 to educate
Girls Action Network Announces the 2012 GAN Smith College Summer Science & Engineering Program Scholars
New York, NY – Gianna De La Cruz, a 10th grader at The Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics in Bronx, New York; Fanta Fofana, a 10th grader at Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, New York; and Claudia Torres, a 9th grader at Kent Place School in Summit, Jersey have been selected by Girls
Girls Action Network Hosts Career Exploration 101 Event
New York, NY – On May 19, 2012, Girls Action Network (GAN) presented Career Exploration 101: Using a Web-based Technology — an introductory, practical, age-appropriate program for female students (grades 6-11) identifying the skills, interests and values essential to exploring and planning one-s career and related educational paths — at St. Philip’s Academy Computer Lab
Founder Elisa M. Basnight Pens Opinion Piece in Philadelphia Inquirer – “Through education comes nation’s opportunity, security”
Philadelphia, PA – In the op-ed, “Through education comes nation’s opportunity, security,” published in the April 1, 2012 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Girls Action Network, Inc. Founder Elisa Basnight opined that, for the sake of economic and national security, “we must ensure that America’s minority girls are provided with the education they need to
Girls Action Network Salutes 2012 Fulbright International Fellow: Tangiah Royster
New York, NY – Tangiah Royster, an honors student at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia, was selected as a 2012 Fulbright International Fellows. Tangiah hails from Newark, New Jersey where she attended Marylawn Academy for Girls. While attending Marylawn, Tangiah participated in various Girls Action Network, Inc. (GAN) programing, to include receiving a 2004 GAN
