Girls Empowerment Network Press Room | Self-Efficacy for Texas Girls
Girls Empowerment Network has been teaching girls to be unstoppable since 1996. Our self-efficacy curriculum features our Seven Cs delivered through schools, camps, and events help girls become unstoppable. By fostering each girl’s belief in herself, she knows she can accomplish her goals, recover from setbacks and believe in her own voice and power. Learn about our mission and keep up with the latest on our blog.
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Girls Empowerment Network Press Releases
May 23, 2023 - Girls Empowerment Network to Create Programming to Support Incarcerated Girls in McLennan County
February 17, 2023 - Girls & Youth in Grades 6-12 Invited to Attend Spark Change Day
June 29, 2022 - Statement on Bodily Autonomy and the SCOTUS Ruling Overturning Roe versus Wade
June 2, 2022 - Houston Teen Girls Invited to Attend 2022 Pathfinder Leadership Summit This Summer - Read more on our blog
May 3, 2022 - Spark Change Day Returns to Texas Capitol, Empowers Girls and Youth Seeking Change Through Advocacy
December 02, 2021 - Girls Empowerment Network expands to San Antonio
November 19, 2021 - Texas Bar Foundation and Women & Girls Development Fund Join Forces, Back Girls Empowerment Network’s Expansion of Girl Connect into San Antonio
April 23, 2021 - Spark Change Day Ignites Civic Engagement, Advocacy Know-how for Texas’ Tween and Teen Girls -Mental health, gender equity, dating violence and more on the agenda
February 8, 2021 - Girls Spark Change Through Activism to Become Unstoppable: New Spark Kit Designed By Girl Experts For Tweens And Teens Invites Girls To Become Unstoppable Activists To Create A More Equitable And Just World - Read more on our blog
October 14, 2020 - Give Her SHEroes, Suffragettes, and Six Word Stump Speeches: New Spark Kit Designed By Girl Experts For Tweens And Teens Puts Girls’ Power In Their Hands, Invites Girls To Lead With Your Voice - Read more on our blog
September 8, 2020 - Girls Empowerment Network Back-to-School Spark Kits Give Girls Across Texas a Way to Feel Connected and Ready to Thrive in Any School Environment
June 18, 2020 - Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Awards $1.2 Million to Train Mental Health Policy Fellows in Texas - Read more on our blog
May 8, 2020 - Empowerment Network Receives $10,000 Grant from Texas Bar Foundation, Expanding Services to Improve Self-Efficacy in At-Risk Girls in Dallas ISD
Girls Empowerment Network in the News
June 8, 2023 - CBS KEYE We Are Austin - Girls Empowerment Network Weeklong Summer Camp Weeklong Fun and Inspiring Day Camp Experience for Girls and Youth Entering Grades 3-8 - Interview by Chelsey Khan
May 31, 2023 - KXAN Studio 512 - Preview This Year’s Girls Empowerment Network Summer Camp - Interview by Rosie Newberry
May 22, 2023 - KVUE News - Hutto High School student raises awareness about teen mental health after overcoming her own struggle - by Jenni Lee
April 27, 2023 - Houston ISD Garden Oaks Montessori - Girls Empowerment Network
April 21, 2023 - Bonfire Blog - Coming Together to Celebrate Women’s History Month
April 4, 2023 - Housing Authority of Travis County - HATC in the Community: March – Women’s Equity and Progressivism in the 21st Century
April 4, 2023 - 3BLMedia - Focussing on Gender Equity This Women’s History Month
March 26, 2023 - WCA Blog - From Glass Ceilings to Glass Staircases: A Q&A Panel Discussion by Roberta Coffin
March 10, 2023 - Spectrum News 1 Texas - Girls Empowerment Network - Brittany Yelverton is interviewed by Alex Stockwell
March 8, 2023 - CBS Austin - Celebrate Women’s History Month with Girls Empowerment Network - Ana Juarez is interviewed by Trevor Scott
February 25, 2023 - Community Impact/Austin - 8 events to attend this February in Austin by Amanda Cutshall
February 1, 2023 - Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Into the Fold Podcast - Episode 142: Empowering Our Girls in 2023 - Sarah Miller-Fellows and Ana O’Quin are interviewed by Ike Evans
February 1, 2023 - Fox 7 Austin - The Bloody Mary Festival is coming to Austin February 11 Interview by Tierra Neubaum
January 6, 2023 - BookPeople Blog - Our 2022 Year in Review at BookPeople
January 4, 2023 - Austin Chronicle - Buh-Bye, Brunch Bird & Plow Burger; Howdy, Masa y Más; Greetings, New Pastry Chef at the Carillon; Oooh, Nice Use of Celery, Bloody Mary Festival; Looking Beyond that Mag Mud Mania; and, Yeah, Even More by Wayne Alan Brenner
November 30, 2022 - 3BLMedia - Applied Materials Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Day of the Girl
November 21, 2022 - Docusign Blog - Global Impact Week 2022: Making an Impact from Anywhere
October 27, 2022 - Community Impact/Houston - 13 Organizations to Volunteer at in the Houston Area This Holiday Season by George Wiebe
October 24, 2022 - Afterschool Snack, Blog of the Afterschool Alliance - "I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world": An interview with Girls Empowerment Network by Maria Rizo
September 23, 2022 - The Manor Journal - ‘We Are Girls’ Empowerment Conference Set by Vicki McFarland
July 22, 2022 - Fox 26 Houston - Volunteer Vibes Show - by Denise Middleton (Interview with Brittany Yelverton starts at 6:33)
July 12, 2022 - Houston ISD News Blog - First Indian American tapped to lead HISD’s Office of Communications in district history
June 1, 2022 - Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Blog - $1.4 Million Awarded to Train Mental Health Policy Fellows in Texas by Kate Rooni
May 10, 2022 - University of Texas News - Grace Farley, UT22 Senior by Kelly Holguín
April 11, 2022 - Austin Kids Directory - Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster: Four Coping Skills for Children and Teens by Kasey Williams
April 7, 2022 - San Antonio Report - Lifting her voice: San Antonio Area Foundation Empowers Girls and Women by San Antonio Area Foundation
March 29, 2022 - San Antonio Area Foundation - Women’s History Month: Area Foundation Boosts Girl Power Through Women & Girls Development Fund by Blithe Wiley
March 29, 2022 - Making After School Cool Podcast - Ep 84: The Girls Empowerment Network (Mike Wilson Interviews Kameryn Poullard Sampson)
March 10, 2022 - West Austin News - Girls Empowerment Network Advocating for Texas Girls
March 7, 2022 - Community Impact - 2022 Central Austin Summer Camp Guide: 42 Academic, Arts, Day and Sports Camp Options (Also, the February 2022 Printed Camp Guide) By Glorie Martinez, Darcy Sprague, Maggie Quinlan, Ben Thompson
February 7, 2022 - Impact Austin - Discovery Days 2022: Thriving Together Through Change - Funding Landscape in Central Texas with Aimee Kane, MPA, CRFE, Moderator
January 2022 - Zonta Club of Fredericksburg - Zonta Club of Fredericksburg, TX Empowers Female Students Through Letters
December 6, 2021 - Community Impact/North San Antonio - Girls Empowerment Network Expands to San Antonio by Edmond Ortiz
November 18, 2021 - The University Star - Alumna Inspires Gender Equity Through Children's Book by Brynn Sumers
November 1, 2021 - Austin Women - Pay it Forward This Giving Tuesday by Stacey Ingram Kaleh
May 12, 2021 - Kingwood High School Mustang Monthly - Sparking Change – The Girls Empowerment Network by Isabella Espinosa
May 5, 2021 - San Marcos Corridor News - Spark Change Day ignites civic engagement, advocacy know-how for Texas’ teen girls
May 5, 2021 - Houston Chronicle - Texas Republicans target 'critical race theory' with bill to muzzle teachers on racism, sexism by Jeremy Blackman, Cayla Harris, Austin Bureau
August 24, 2021 - KEYE TV CBS Austin “We Are Austin” - Inspire future leaders with these Girls Empowerment Network "Spark Kits!"
August 18, 2021 - Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University - Community Bridges work demonstrates the need for nonprofits to be responsive, accessible despite disparities by Veda Kumar
April 16, 2021 - Austin360 | Austin American-Statesman - Girls Empowerment Network celebrates 25 years with a new advocacy program for girls of color, lessons from pandemic written by Nicole Villalpando
April 9, 2021 - Women Communicators of Austin - Finding Your North Star: Communicating the Value of Self-Efficacy interviewed by Anne Lasseigne Tiedt
March 24, 2021 - 365 Things Austin - Unstoppable Activist Spark Kits by Catherine Prystup
March 18, 2021 - We Are Austin - Spark Kits! by Trevor Scott & Taylor Ellison
March 10, 2021 - KHOU 11 - The Girls Empowerment Network inspiring the next generation how to succeed with confidence by Michelle Choi
March 9, 2021 - The Austin Chronicle - Monica Ceniceros and those atxGALS The Cathedral? Creative Box Studios? All that art? This is them. by Wayne Alan Brenner
March 4, 2021 - San Marcos Corridor News - Details for Amplify Austin Day, a day of giving by Staff Report
February 25, 2021 – Into the Fold: Issues in Mental Health Podcast – Empowering Girls Through Policy interviewed by Ike Evans
December 23, 2020 - Formidable Women Magazine - New Spark Kit Designed by Girl Experts for Tweens and Teens Puts Girls’ Power in Their Hands, Invites Girls to Lead With Your Voice by Jules Lavallee
December 19, 2020 - The Economist - Awesome, Weird and Everything Else, Being a Girls Is Special, Difficult and Better Than It Used to Be
November 20, 2020 - San Marcos Daily Record - Council Considers $500K Award to Social Services by Stephanie Gates
November 11, 2020 - Junior League of Austin - League Lines - Girls Empowerment Network: Igniting a Spark in the Pandemic by Jillian Bliss
October 29, 2020 - Austin Moms Blog - New Spark Kit Puts Girls’ Power in Her Hands, Invites Girls to Lead With Your Voice by Alison Mack
October 27, 2020 - 365 Things Austin - Lead With Your Voice Spark Kits by Catherine Prystup
Austin Family Magazine - We Are Girls 2020
October 14, 2020 - Freebies, Deals & Steals - Lead With Your Voice Spark Kit - Girls Empowerment Network
September 3, 2020 - EASTside Magazine - Julia Cuba-Lewis {Women: A Force for Change}
August 5, 2020 - Houston Women with Dana Tyson Podcast - Julia Cuba Lewis of Girls Empowerment Network
July 22, 2020 - Austin Moms Blog - Resources to Help You Navigate Schooling During COVID by Mickey Lozano
June 30, 2020 - Southern Living - Girls Empowerment Network Offers Young Girls Summer Camp in a Box by Meghan Overdeep
June 29, 2020 - MSN - Texas Organization Offers Young Girls Summer Camp in a Box
June 29, 2020 - Yahoo News - Texas Organization Offers Young Girls Summer Camp in a Box
June 25, 2020 - KVUE TV ABC - Girls Empowerment Network Delivering Summer Camp in a Box to Girls’ Doorsteps by Yvonne Nava
June 17, 2020 - KEYE TV CBS Austin “We Are Austin” - Girls Empowerment Network “Spark Kits” Igniting Confidence At Home
June 8, 2020 - Houston Moms Blog - Spark Kits: A Safe Summer Camp Experience for Girls
Summer, 2020 - Recognize Good - For Goodness Sake Girls Empowerment Network
May 14, 2020 - Austin 360 | Austin American-Statesman - Coronavirus in Austin: What Does Summer Camp Look Like by Nicole Villalpando
April 21, 2020 - Austin 360 | Austin American-Statesman - Local Museums, Theaters Offering Online Activities for Kids by Nicole Villalpando
March 29, 2020 - Austin 360 | Austin American-Statesman - Girls Empowerment Network Offers Stress Relief Kit, Videos for 3rd Through 12th Grade Girls by Nicole Villalpando
March 1, 2020 - The Buzz Magazine - Empowering girls by Aryana Masaffa
March 2, 2020 - Community Impact News - 2020 Central Austin Summer Camp Guide: 61 Options from Academic Camps to Arts and Sports by Jack Flagler
February 11, 2020 - Culture Map-Houston - 14 Fabulous Fashion Events for the Stylish Houstonian This February by Julia Davila
February 9, 2020 - Houstonia Magazine - 10 Things to Do for Galentine’s Day This Year by Rebekah Kibodeaux
November 16, 2019 - KXAN News Austin - Austin Area Girls Empowered by ‘Believe It. Be It.” Message by Chelsea Moreno
November 6, 2019 - Austin Moms Blog - Believe It & Be It: Girls Empowerment Network
October 15, 2019 - Austin 360 | Austin American-Statesman - We Are Girls Message from Air Force Master Sergeant: Find Strength in Individuality by Nicole Villalpando
April 27, 2019 - Click2Houston NBC - 1600+ Girls Attend We Are Girls Conference in Houston by Rose-Ann Aragon
April 25, 2019 - Houston Chronicle - Girls Rule Houston This Weekend With Barbie’s 60th Celebration by Joy Sewing
April 3, 2019 - Houston Moms Blog - Empowering Every Girl to “Ignite Her Power” and Her Future
April 3, 2019 - VoyageHouston - Meet Lisa Stanton of Girls Empowerment Network in Meyerland
January 22, 2019 - Our Voices Matter Podcast - Julia Cuba Lewis by Linda Lorelle
September 25, 2018 - 365 Things Austin - Girls Empowerment Network Town Hall
April 28, 2018 - Houston Chronicle - Girls Tackle Life, Love and Loss at Houston Empowerment Conference by Monica Rhor
May 9, 2017 - Houston Chronicle - Who Run the World? 1600 Girls at We Are Girls Houston Conference by Joy Sewing
April 19, 2017 - Austin American-Statesman - What Are Girls Thinking? GEN Survey Tries to Answer This Question by Nicole Villalpando
January 12, 2017 - Austin American-Statesman - How a Group of Frustrated Moms Built Girls Empowerment Network by Nicole Villalpando
May 16 - On the Dot Woman - Julia Cuba Lewis: Growing Up Female, Growing Up Strong by Melinda Garvey