Girls Lead

This is an academic blog dedicated to documenting the progress and analysis of our service-learning project working in partnership with the Young Women Leaders Program of the University of Central Florida and with the 7th grade girls from three local middle schools who participate in its mentorship. This year-long project is comprised of four aims: to assist the girls in recognizing their own power and leadership skills, to encourage the girls to use their power and leadership skills to create their own spaces online and to exercise their agency within those spaces to elicit a positive impact, to support the girls in forging their own projects by actively engaging with other technological mediums, and assisting the girls in fostering a movement for advocacy against bullying online and off while building a shared-responsibility structure to hold all community members (including themselves) accountable for society's treatment, perceptions, and expectations of girls.