We are Girls Inc. of the Valley

This Thursday I will be #CelebratingHerPlaceAtTheTable with some incredible girls and women!

Join me for #SpiritofGirls from 8-9am along with Elizabeth Warren Tequilla Whitfield & Carmen Yulín

The event is FREE https://girlsincvalley.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/SpiritofGirlsSpring2021CelebratingHerPlaceattheTable/RSVPtoSpiritofGirls/tabid/1225033/Default.aspx

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During Girls Inc. Week we engage in a conversation around a topic important to girls. This year girls voted on the focus of comprehensive sex education.

Thanks to Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C., for being a Mentor Sponsor of #SpiritOfGirls! Learn more at mbkcpa.com

Westfield State University generously donated the use of their TV studio for us to film #SpiritOfGirls! Thank you so much, Westfield State -- and especially the Communication Department -- for your incredible support. ... See more

Thank you to Mount Holyoke College Professional and Graduate Education - PAGE for their Mentor Sponsorship of #SpiritOfGirls!

To learn more, visit mtholyoke.edu/professional-graduate

We are thrilled to have Janine Fondon as part of our #SpiritOfGirls program!

Janine Fondon, a writer, educator, media producer and consultant, brings her New York spirit, Caribbean lineage, and Massachusetts mindset (with Southern exposure) to the boardroom, living room, classroom and now ZOOM.

Janine has used her communication and public relations skills to build bridges of inclusion in corporations and communities. Her work on diversity councils and leadership teams has focused on raising unheard voices and inspiring change through collective action.

She has worked for several universities including her current position as Assistant Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Communication at Bay Path University as week as worked at several corporations (ABC-TV, CBS-TV, BankBoston, Digital).

She co-founded, with her husband Tom, a media business -- UnityFirst.com -- to share diversity-related news. Janine continues to be inspired by an exhibit she curated at the Springfield Museums: “Voices of Resilience: The Intersection of Women on the Move."

Get your FREE ticket and join Janine at Spirit of Girls: http://ow.ly/SL6N50Ey7lc ... See more

As Bon Jovi might say if he were joining us at Spirit of Girls Spring 2021: Celebrating Her Place at the Table, "whoaaaaa we're a quarter of the way there!"

We've raised over $26,000! We still need your support. Can you help us close in on $50,000? https://www.givegab.com/campaigns/spirit-of-girls-spring-2021 ... See more

We are so pleased to welcome Carmen Yulín as another special guest for #SpiritOfGirls 2021!

Yulín is currently the Harriet L. Weissman and Paul M. Weissman Distinguished Fellow in Leadership at Mount Holyoke College and Former Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Yulín is an active advocate for equality, fighting for the LGBTQ community, the deaf community and children with functional diversity as well as those who have struggled with gender-based violence. She is also a champion for the rights of immigrants.

Her vision of public service is one of governing not for the people, but with the people. She believes a better society is built by having strong student organizations, labor unions, and by implementing programs such as participatory budgets, wherein the people in each community decide how to best develop sustainable plans for themselves.

Join Yulín and many others by RSVPing for your FREE ticket here: http://ow.ly/F8mR50Eyatf ... See more