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SAN FRANCISCO (August 12, 2021) – The San Francisco-based nonprofit Career Girls announced today the appointment of DeAndra Jean-Louis, Vice-President of Palo Alto Networks, and Desira Stearns, Strategic Diversity Outreach Director for Leidos, to its Board of Directors. “Career Girls is dedicated to helping every girl around the world reach…

SAN FRANCISCO, (March 19, 2020) – The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced this month that Career Girls – a non-profit organization that provides young girls (ages 10-13) with professional, women role models working across all 17 U.S. career clusters and career exploration tools with an emphasis on…

SAN FRANCISCO (March 17, 2020) – The San Francisco-based nonprofit Career Girls announced today the appointment of Rachael Esperanza, Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) Business Partner at Google, and Andrea Schulz, Senior Manager at KPMG LLP, to its Board of Directors. "Career Girls aims to give all girls from…

I first understood the impact of stories from listening as a little girl to my grandmother. She would put me on her knee and share stories from her own journey — how she went from living in extreme poverty in rural Virginia to having full agency over her life. My…

SAN FRANCISCO (August 20, 2019) – Career Girls – the non-profit organization that provides young girls with real, professional women role models and career exploration tools with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – announced today the appointment of Shruthi Jayaram, Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Advisors,…

The San Francisco-based non-profit Career Girls held a workshop Saturday, Aug. 3 at the 12th Annual “Attend & Achieve” Back to School Rally at Oakland City Hall. The panel and workshop featured six local women who shared their professional jour­neys to inspire more than 125 6th and 8th grade girls…

SAN FRANCISCO (June 17, 2019) – Career Girls – a non-profit organization that provides young girls with real, professional women role models and career exploration tools with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – announced today the launch of its Career Girls Mobile Learning Center (MLC) pilot…

Career Girls is a United States based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a free noncommercial video platform to amplify the stories of positive female role models and provide girls of all income levels and ethnic backgrounds an inspirational “real world” context to their academic studies. Career Girls is a…

Career Girls, a nonprofit organization founded by Linda Calhoun in 1996, is committed to helping girls around the world reach their potential and discover their path to empowerment. On their website, re-launching today at careergirls.org, over 10,000 videos of more than 500 women role models of diverse backgrounds, ages and…

Jessica Marquez has always reached for the limitless. As a child her personal mission to find a world beyond her own looked like wanting to be an astronaut. Now, 11 years into a career at NASA, it looks like helping facilitate space exploration as a Human Systems Engineer and Research…

In a study created by Microsoft and Dr. Shalini Kesar, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Southern Utah University, young girls are more likely to explore STEM careers when they see successful women representation. “Girls and young women have a hard time picturing themselves in STEM…

SAN FRANCISCO (June 25, 2018) – Career Girls – a non-profit organization committed to providing young girls with the educational tools and support they need to achieve their professional aspirations – flipped the switch on its new-and-improved website, Careergirls.org, the company announced today. The online platform is re-designed to ensure…