Mar 13, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers Bolden adapted the organizing techniques she learned as a civil rights activist to secure protections for domestic workers, a largely unregulated part of the workforce. For...
Feb 7, 2020 | Entrepreneurship, Girls We Love
Search for: The Techpreneur Growing up with her grandparents on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Lisa Michael Jones has witnessed the hardships of Tanzanian farmers. She remembers the time in 2016 when her grandfather invested in a large portion of land to start...
Feb 7, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: YOURS in POWER If you could say anything to yourself as a kid, what would you say? That’s the question behind ONE’s new documentary series, Yours in Power. Three activists working to create gender equality have written to themselves as young girls,...
Jan 11, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Eliakunda Kaaya When I was 13, a man came to my home wanting to marry me and my mom chased him away with a stick. She refused to let me marry some stranger because she knew that I was meant to do big things in my life. But it wasn’t always that way. When I...
Dec 10, 2019 | Girls We Love
Search for: TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Marielle Heller – “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” Marielle Stiles Heller is an American writer, director, and actor. She took on the indie movie “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” which earned Oscar nominations for...
Nov 12, 2019 | Girls We Love
Search for: Meet the Runaway Bride Helping to Stop Child Marriage At 12 years old, Mikre was married to a man more than twice her age. Her mother, Mare Nega, made the arrangement in secret, using the christening of her newborn as cover for her young daughter’s...
