The Bella Bulletin Newsletter: January 2021 Edition

The Bella Bulletin JANUARY 2021

“To the Women in the World�

BALI Alum, Saina Srivastava, pens a beautiful poem dedicated to all the women in the world.

The voice of a BALI Alum BALI Alum, Agatha Edwards writes about her experience at the BALI summer program, what she gained from it and how she was able to apply the skills learned, to her own life.

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Table of Contents The Black Woman who Spear-headed the COVID-19 Vaccine….3

Contextualizing the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment....4

The Voice of BALI ALUM, AGATHA EDWARDS.……5 Feminist Five!...................…….…….…………...….6 To the Women in the world……………………...8 KEY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASKS FOR BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION…..10

Happy birthday to…………….…………..…...….. .11 Women’s History of the Month.……..…...….. .12 New Virtual After School Program.…………...13 SafeBae……………..………………………….....….. .14 Stay Insta-Informed……..…......................….. .15 Enrichment Opportunities…….……….............16 BALI Staff……………………………...…….....….…18 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ………………………….......19

The Black Woman who Spear-Headed the COVID-19 Vaccine Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, ​A Black woman from North Carolina will go down in history for leading the effort to solve the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Kizzmekia 30 days after being nominated

by President Corbett is a Trump, Amy Coney Barrett was officially research fellow sworn-in as a Supreme Court Justice on October scientificMyles lead This past March,July officers Brettand Hankinson, On Wednesday, 29, Mexico’s Court 27th.

Based on her judicial recordSupreme on ​gun rights Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly, into at thebarged National (SCJN)immigration halted ​a tremendous for and as well asmilestone her public Breonna Taylor’s houseagainst under a “no-knock abortion rights by voting an injunction in Health. statements onshe abortion and boyfriend, ​LInstitut GBTQ+ of rights​ , it is warrant” as and her K ​ enneth Veracruz. The injunction, approved by a judge in She awill was shift on ofthe clear Barrett’s nomination Walker​that ,Veracruz were sleeping and 32 Xalapa, ordered thefired state’sbarrage congress to nation’s highest court severely to the right.

The frontlines working with a team of scientists, bullets that k ​ illed Taylor​ .

This month, remove articles 149, 150, and 154 of the locala backlash againstThis Barrett’s nomination is Jefferson County grand jury onlyone indicted of studying Moderna's vaccine, of theone two penal code. decision would have two-fold: Americans are concerned about the three Many officers, Hankinson, and decriminalizeed abortions within 12 charged weeks, COVID-19 vaccines shown to be only effective by how Barrett’s stance will in court him for endangering Taylor’s neighbors.

None allowed for abortions dueplay to out health risks,cases and more than 90 percent. Finding a vaccine to of the officers werelimit charged forand the for death of dealing with LGBTQ+ rights abortion abolished the time on abortions cases combat COVID-19 has been crucial to saving Breonna Taylor.

Inplan addition, involving rape. forCity removing theseleaked three (particularly inThe ​Fulton v. ofrecently Philadelphia ​), body-cam footage reveals Brett Hankinson and lives on a national global level. articles was originally introduced by the and people are and furious with the women’s Trump Myles Cosgrove r ​ eturning to Taylor’s residence rights organizations National Commission to administration for fast-tracking Barrett’s and commenting on evidence after Prevent and rather Eradicate Violence against Women nomination thanpotential allowing the American Black Americans and other people of color the incident took place.

Needless to say, folks (Conavim) and the National Institute for Women people to let ​dtheir vote for president influence have been isproportionately affected (InMujeres) 2016. Unfortunately, ​fourTaylor’s out by of across the in country are furious that the justice to fill the place of the late Ruth five judges against upholding the injunction. death occurred at all, and now, Taylor Covid-19​ , voted increasing the that urgency amongis Bader Ginsburg, considering Republicans While denied this decision have only affected the being justice.would health experts community leaders to prevented formerandpresident, Barack Obama, state of Veracruz, activists hoped that it would set build and trust in the vaccine. But from ​rconfidence eplacingfor Justice the precedent otherScalia states to2016. do the same. skepticism among some people of color, especially Black Americans, remains high.

A study released by the COVID Collaborative, the NAACP and UnidosUS found that only 14% of BlackonAmericans trust that a vaccine Information President Trump’s long-awaited tax-returns been released by the will be safe has and finally 18% trust it will be effective.

New York Times​. According to their report, Their concerns stem largely from aleadership, history of In a seismic shift in governmental Trump, the only president in recent historythis to After winning the Democratic nomination racism in medical research and healthcare Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, F ​ iame Naomi not tax-returns, paid year July, release Candacehis Valenzuela could now$750 makethe history Mata’afa has resigned from her government that includes incidents like the T ​ uskegee he won the presidential election and his first. by becoming the first Black Latina in Congress​ position to against former the year in experiment​ office.

In ,10 the pastofparty, 15 school years, syphilis theofher study found.

Valenzuela isrun an educator, a member her Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), in the however, didn’t ofpay board, and he a mother two.any Her income campaigntaxes was because he reported losing more money than next election.

Fiame’s decision to resign and run supportedhas by ​sEMILY’s List, hesitancy End CitizensinUnited, Corbett een vaccine Black he made.

In addition, he is currently in a dispute against her party is a rejection the Congressional Hispanic of current Caucus, Prime the communities firsthand and recognizes that with the IRS over the legitimacy of a $72.9 Congressional Black Aiono Caucus, the Malielegaoi’s Congressional Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele million tax refund.

Unsurprisingly, Trump has rebuilding trust in medical institutions will Asian American Pcific American Caucus, andclaim was recently established laws that critics referred to the report as “ ​ fake news.” endorsed bySamoa’s the late constitution.

John Lewis. take time, which is something that health undermine

experts have to accept. ​Thankfully, Dr. Corbett, being a black woman herself and the one behind the vaccines development, has been able to reassure some of black community of the ​COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness and it being safe for individuals This October, Cameroon’s ​Anglophone Crisis to take.

Corbett did however say to people has reached higher stakes after a fatal shooting who are hesitant about the vaccine that, at Mother International Bilingual Thetheday beforeFrancisca Newright York City public schools “You've earned the to ask the questions Jena Faith, 43-year-old trans woman, just Academy inaKumba that resulted in the deaths were scheduled to open, the Council ofhas School that you have around these vaccines and this made history in Steuben County​ , NY by filing of six and children under (CSA) 14-years-old.

Supervisors Administrators ​declared aa lawsuit against thevote county forhave the abuse she vaccine development process,” but is “No Confidence” against Mayor Bill de Unfortunately, the shooters notshe been experienced in jail.

Faith was arrested back in Blasio and Chancellor Richard due to identified yet.

The earn Anglophone Crisis in working hard to help backCarranza that trust.

2018 for allegedly buyingupa with meal awith counterfeit their failure to come safe plan for Cameroon first emerged in 2016 as money. she was placed in a schools inWhile the in midst of theoriginally COVID-19 pandemic.

Anglophones Cameroon started to protest Dr. Corbett women’s facility, she was abruptly movedontodea Along with the vote, CSA is calling their oppression atthe the hands of the men’s facility she was misgendered, denied her has been Blasio and Carranza to relinquish control of the Francophone government.

Since then, due to hormone replacement treatment, and sexually city's Department of Education for the outspoken on the government’s violent suppression of these assaulted.

Thethelawsuit Faith upon her remainder of pandemic andfiled to seek outrole the the protests, tensions have continued to rise and release, however, now York led toState multiple reforms assistance of thehasNew education systemic over 5,000 soldiers, separatist fighters, and dedicated to protecting trans inmates.

As result department. According to CSA leaders, aschool of these reforms, trans inmates in Steuben County civilians have tobeen killed. Not only has this racism has officials want get school’s reopened as safely will have access to gender-affirming care, will be conflict resulted in immense violence, it also and as quickly as possible. played in the able to wear clothing that aligns with their gender, prevented almost one million children from pandemic, and behasreferred criticized the Trump and legallyschool must attending right now. to by their correct administration for a lack of diversity on its names and pronouns. coronavirus task force.

"Trust, especially when it has been stripped from people, has to be rebuilt in a brick-by-brick fashion," she said. "And so, what I say to people firstly is that I empathize, and secondly that I'm goingsummit, to do my Daysthen before a majorisUN biodiversity 64 In the past few months, ​the Greek government part in laying those bricks.

And I think that if world leaders signed the ​Leader’s Pledge for has secretly expelled over 1,000march asylumbegan seekers North Carolina’s “I Am Change” as Nature​, among them Merkel, Justin everyone on our side,Angela physicians and sending them offas in occasionally aby peaceful protest to encourage voter turnout Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, and Boris Johnson. malfunctioning life rafts.

Despite the scientists, about it that way, when thenmany the but uicklywent devolved into violence The ​qdocument is a 10-point pledge that planslaw to outcries against Greece’s illegalandactions, the trust would start to be rebuilt." enforcement arrived in riot gear gas masks reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The pledge government has denied the allegations. Some and that protestors the warnsdemanded that humanity is facing a move climatetocrisis experts suggest that this recent humanitarian and declares that the it will deforestation sidewalk.

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The pledge also puts pressure on folks that were the crowd. led people to inbelieve that both nations are countries that contribute weaponizing Syrian refugeesthe to most place greenhouse pressure on gasses like the US, Brazil, China, and Russia. one another.

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Contextualizing the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The distribution of the COVID-19 Nsé long-awaited Ufot vaccine this past month has shed a brighter light on the painful history of the mistreatment of Black Americans and other communities of color by the medical industry in the United States.

While many Americans are excited about the prospect the vaccine, reports indicate that trust 30 days of after being nominated

by President in the vaccine many Black communities is fairly Trump, Amy inConey Barrett was officially low; a direct result of Court historical medical racism. sworn-in as a Supreme Justice on October This past March, officers Brett Hankinson, On Wednesday, July 29, Mexico’s Supreme Court One example thisjudicial medicalrecord racism on that​gun hasMyles been 27th.

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GBTQ+ rights​ , it is recent is the ​Tuskegee Syphilis warrant” ason she and her enneth Veracruz.

The injunction, approved by her a ​Kjudge in Fund (NGP AF), N ​ sé Ufot​ , and team clear that Barrett’s nomination will shiftofthe Walker​ , were sleeping and fired a barrage 32 Xalapa, Veracruz ordered the state’s congress to successfully ​registered almost 425,000 voters ​in nation’s highest court severely to theofmonth, right.

Thea bullets that ​killed Taylor​ . is This remove 149, 150, and 154 the local Georgia articles this year.

Ufot’s work trailblazing for backlash against Barrett’s nomination is Jefferson CountyThis grand decision jury only indicted one of penal code. would have the way that she utilizes technology (specifically two-fold: Americans are concerned about the three Many officers, Hankinson, and only decriminalizeed abortions within 12 charged weeks, the video game science, blockchain and how Barrett’s stance will in court him for endangering Taylor’s neighbors.

None allowed for abortions dueplay to out health risks,cases and cryptocurrency, and charged building of the officers were forand the designing death of dealing with LGBTQ+ rights and abortion abolished the time limit on abortions for cases mobile apps) to empower voters and make Breonna Taylor.

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Ufot states body-cam Brett Hankinson and articlespeople wasfootage originally introduced the and are reveals furious withby the women’s Trump that NGP’s ​outstanding success this year wastoa Myles Cosgrove r ​ eturning to Taylor’s residence rights organizations National Commission administration for fast-tracking Barrett’s result of their focus on expanding the and on evidence after Prevent and rather Eradicate Violence Women The commenting Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, to nomination thanpotential allowingagainst theintended American electorate, voter education, voter mobilization, the incident took place.

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In a seismic shiftpresident in governmental leadership, Trump, the only in recent history to voternomination this After winning the Democratic Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, F ​ iame Naomi not release his tax-returns, paid $750 year empowerment, July, Candace Valenzuela could makethe history In 1936, itthe waspresidential decided that the now experiment would Mata’afa has resigned from her government he won election and his first. justice, by becoming the first Blackcriminal Latina in Congress​ follow these men until their death.

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Unsurprisingly, Trump has Asian American Pcific American Caucus, and was recently established laws that critics claim and resources to help voters evaluate inherit the disease. referred to the report as “ ​ fake news.” endorsed bySamoa’s the late constitution.

John Lewis. undermine candidates.

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Tamieka Atkins

Since the termination of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the U.S. government has made With years of multiple attempts at reparations, including organizing, promising lifetime health benefits to the study’s advocacy, and survivors and their families.

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The pledge also puts pressure on folks that were in the crowd. led people to believe that both nations are engagement, issue organizing, and economies countries that contribute the most greenhouse weaponizing Syrian refugees to place pressure on of scale. gasses like the US, Brazil, China, and Russia. one another.

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"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that

Theearly Healing of America: A Global Questwere for Better, Cheaper, and from Fairertheir ​In​Inthe 1800s, the Mvskoke people forcibly removed

anything possible within themselves"--Princess Nokia, musician and original lands east ofT.R. the Mississippi tothe Indian which is now Care,is​centuries author describes methods other “​Health Documents of Reid techniques designed toTerritory, limitthat progress inindustrialized the blackpart ofcommunity.

Oklahoma. co-founderAlthough of Two theused hundred Smart Girl Club later, Joy Harjo returns her some ofyears the material may upsetting, this is family’s athan bookwhat democracies have to provide healthcare forbecitizens forto far less lands and opens a dialogue with history. that should absolutely be included in the curriculum." – ​Starred review, School is spent for health care in the United States. These countries, in doing so for Library Connection In ​Bmoney, eyond the Gender Binarycoverage ​, poet, artist, andtheir LGBTQIA+ less provide universal for all citizens.rights advocate Alok

In ​An American Sunrise​, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous WhenFrom America achieves of milestones of progress toward full and equal black families, essentially herbook memory herthe mother’s death, her beginnings incare the T.R. Reid describes hisdisappeared. purpose in writing this to “search developed worldtofor effective health native rights movement, to the fresh road in with her beloved, personal life intertwines withracist participation theHarjo’s systemic is a consistent systems and take lessons from the ones that workdemocracy, best.” Not surprisingly, Reidresponse finds positives and negatives in tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, backlash thatsystems rolls back those wins.

Weunbiased Are Notfashion.

Yet Equal these moments: The end of the many of the he evaluates in an His examines conclusionfive thatofall of these other plans spend illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living "Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing two the myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning less on health care administration the with United States, better outputs than the US system, andNorth Civil War andof Reconstruction was than greeted Jim Croworachieve laws; promise of new opportunities in the in the ruins injustice. actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer cover citizens their countries is irrefutable. duringallthe Greatwithin Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the

“An American Sunrise is full of celebration, crisis,Board brokenness and healing, with poems that rely on South; the Supreme ​Brown of Education decision waswitty met with thetoshutting “Not many writers Court's of any landmark ilk… can1954 match T.R.v.Reid’s ability to bring a light, touch really "When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."--Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and lyric techniques like repetition, avoidance of temporal specifics and the urge to speak down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to serious topics–like health policy around the globe.”–New America Foundation songwriter collectively…” laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionately —Daisy Fried, ​Nand ew Yorkelection Times of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of targeted "A fierce,blacks; penetrating,the and empowering call for change."-- ​Kirkus Reviews,​ starred review

black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.

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“It’s time for a new beauty paradigm.”― Alok Vaid-Menon

Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence.

The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary. Gender assignments create a narrative for how a person should behave, what they are allowed to like or wear, and how they express themself. Punishment of nonconformity leads to an inseparable link between gender and shame. Vaid-Menon challenges familiar arguments against gender nonconformity, breaking them down into four categories—dismissal, inconvenience, biology, and the slippery slope (fear of the consequences of acceptance). Headers in bold font create an accessible navigation experience from one analysis to the next. The prose maintains a conversational tone that feels as intimate and vulnerable as talking with a best friend. At the same time, the author's turns of phrase in moments of deep insight ring with precision and poetry. In one reflection, they write, “the most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.” While this short essay speaks honestly of pain and injustice, it concludes with encouragement and an invitation into a future that celebrates transformation.

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Women’s History of the month: January

Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of seven established.

York City to the funeral Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.

December 10, 1938 November 14,victims 1903 of the Triangle unidentified focusing16, on 1916 healthcare and education in the October Shirtwaist Company fire in late March.

Israel and the U.S. April 5, 1911 February 24, 1912

Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, therights citizen to become aupholds saint.civil arrest sparks the modern Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second woman toUS. play baseball in November 13, 1938 movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the all-male minor leagues, December 1, 1955 Presbyterian Church.

Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition game against the N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a the center for October 24,and 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees strikes out both Babe February 27, 1922 African-American women’s woman to own a seat on the history, N.Y. Stock Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange.

April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a1967 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly December 28, (at ABC).women rotating neutroninstar.

Fifteen the House of October 4, 19761967 Representatives form the signs the February President24, Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment.

April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964

The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote.

Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 opens. milesinon women the right to vote.

England Female Medical School, school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of the night to November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the3,American militia that the British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement.

Mary McLeod Bethune createsaka theNellie National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, Bly, were invading.

Council of Negro Women.

Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 5,1777 1935 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight.

Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and in Independence Hall present the Vice October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter.

President with1870 the of theDays.

Rights November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805

July 4, Quimby 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet fly airplane across the English Channel.

16 an women from the National Women’s Party

were arrested April 16, 1912while picketing the White Capt.Suffrage Annie Fox receives the first Purple The Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Heart awarded to charged aCady woman for her service Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, suffrage; they with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

Lucretia sculpted byNavy.

Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. December 7, 1941 at the U.S. Capitol.

Johnson, is dedicated woman suffrage.

October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910 The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. July 20,Bryan 1942 Owen is the first woman to Ruth

represent the U.S. as a foreign minister Althea Gibson is the first African American when she is appointed as envoy to woman player to win a Wimbledon title in Denmark. women’s tennis singles.

April 13, 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of a stock (American Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship.

Women’s International Leagueatfor Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial.

February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize.

Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president of Univ.

November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Marie Opening ofHiatt, the National Museum ofU.S. of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr.Ivy Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an League institution. during Challenger flight.

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American Museum of Natural History​ various teen programs run through the American Museum of

Black Natural Girls Code Historyoffers programming and events in coding for African American girls.

Black Girls Code offers programming and events in coding for African American girls.

Black Girls Code​ offers and eventsand in coding for African American girls.

Brotherhood/Sister Sol programming offers afterschool summer programming in relationshipBrotherhood/Sister Sol offers afterschool and summer programming in relationshipbuilding, self/global awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of building,Brotherhood/Sister self/global awareness, social justice, leadership and self/global more. Some of Sol​ offers afterschool and summer programingdevelopment, in relationship-building, their programs are gender-specific. their programs gender-specific. awareness,are social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of their programs are gender-specific.

ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

ChickTech​ offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

CuriousJane Janeoffers offersclasses classesand andsummer summer programming programming in Curious in science, science,theatre, theatre,arts artsand andcrafts, crafts, and more for girls. and more for girls.

Columbia University​ pre-college programs for high school students run through Columbia University.

DigitalGirl, Girl,Inc. Inc. works high schools to provide provideinprogramming and offers Curious Jane​works offers classes andschools summer programming science, theatre, in arts and crafts, and moretech for Digital atathigh to programming inSTEM STEM and offers tech workshops forthe thecommunity. community. girls. for workshops Digital Girl, Inc. ​win orks at high schools to STEM andrace, offers tech for GirlBeBeHeard Heard works inhigh high schools toprovide girls about class Girl works schools to teachprogramming aboutingender, gender, race,and andworkshops classthrough through the community. theatre, and offersworkshops workshopsand and performances. performances. theatre, and offers Generation Citizen ​ encourages civic engagement in youthand through an action civics class.

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GirlVow Vow offerseducation, education, mentorship, life training for Girl Be Heard​Equity works in high schools to teach girls about gender, race,advocacy, and class through theatre, and Girls community leadership, andsocial social Girlsfor forGender Gender Equityoffers offersprogramming programming in in community advocacy, leadership, and offers workshops and performances. justice justicefor forgirls. girls.

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Girls economicliteracy, literacy,leadership leadershipand and GirlsInc. Inc.offers offersprogramming programmingin instatistical statistical analysis, analysis, economic community action, STEM, media literacy, sexual healtheducation, education, substanceabuse abuse community STEM,offers media literacy,inathletics, athletics, Girls foraction, Gender Equity​ programming community sexual advocacy,health leadership, and socialsubstance justice for prevention, 6-18. prevention,self-defense, self-defense,and andmore more for for girls girls ages ages 6-18. girls.

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Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in Girls on the Run offers a physical activity based youth development program for girls in grades 3-8.

Girls Leadership ​offers Parent & Daughter workshops, parent education, and summer day camps for girls grades 3-8. entering grades 4 and 5.

Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high Girls Who Code offers afterschool and summer programming in coding for middle and high school girls.

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Girls Write Now​ offers mentoring programs in writing, digital media, and college preparation for girls.

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GOALS for Girls offers year‑round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and internships

GOALS for Girls offers year-round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and in STEM for middle and high school girls. internships in STEM for middle and high school girls.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small‑group mentoring for young Latinas.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small-group mentoring for young Latinas.

Life is Precious offers individual and groups counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and nutritional

Life is Precious offers individual and group counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas. nutritional and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas.

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and advocacy, as

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and well as mentoring for girls in grades 6‑12. advocacy, as well as mentoring for girls in grades 6-12.

Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has school girls. partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer afterschool NYU GSTEM is a six‑week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior programming in physical activity and healthy living. and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides afterschool and summer programming in leadership Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in and social justice for girls ages 14-22. physical activity and healthy living.

Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues faced by young faced bywomen of color. young women of color.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and a free summer enrichment program for college students media programming for girls ages 13-19.

Summer Health Professions Education Program pursuing health professions.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers afterschool and summer music programing for girls.

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YWCA provides programming in leadership and advocacy, STEAM, career and college Art. exploration, and more for girls.

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Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers after‑school and summer music programming for girls.

Young Women's Christian Association an organization that informs women on societal issues that affect them and encourages them to vote

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