The time to invest in girls is now.

Our 15th Anniversary Breakfast Gala launches a month-long celebration and fundraising effort for She’s the First. These critical funds will allow us to fulfill our pledges to community-based organizations, funding girls’ education, mentorship groups, urgent access to sexual health and reproductive rights programs, and training for grassroots leaders.

Give for ELVIRA: A first-generation graduate shaped by MAIA's education and mentorship programs of MAIA, funded by She’s the First; she’s now the first Indigenous girl from her community to study in the U.S. and dreams of becoming the ambassador of Guatemala.

Give for CHRISTINE: A 17-year-old who narrowly escaped a form of gender-based violence called FGM - female genital mutilation - then became committed to designing programs with other girls, to prevent and end FGM in her rural Kenyan community.

Give for ALLISON & SANIA: Two girls, from the U.S. and Malaysia, who became best friends and found their voices as young activists in our Girl Activist Fellowship Program.

Give in honor of trailblazers like our Luminary Award recipient Opal Vadhan, who started her career as a She’s the First volunteer intern, while only a high school senior! She went on to become Special Assistant to the President and Personal Aide to Vice President Kamala Harris in the Biden-Harris administration. Before that, she was Trip Director to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and during the pandemic volunteered with World Central Kitchen.

Stay tuned for a special publication launching on May 1st, for more stories you can amplify in May. Our gala was just the start. Please help us power through this global backlash on girls’ rights and keep progressing toward a world where every girl is educated, respected, and heard.

Special thanks to the 15th Anniversary Breakfast Gala Sponsors & Host Committee for your momentum behind this campaign!

Tara Abrahams • Christen Brandt • Sali Christeson • Arianna DeLorenzi • Angela Jia Kim • Alexandra Mallilo • Natalya Muravchik • Harish Nataraj • Kanchan Nayar • Ezinne Okoro • Katie Riley • Lisa Sepulveda
with our Co-CEOs Tammy Tibbetts and Kate Kiama

Thank you to WPP for generously hosting us in your 3 World Trade Sky Lounge!

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She's the First 15th Anniversary Campaign