GGE HerStory
GGE was founded in this NYC borough.
What is Brooklyn?
This issue area focuses on making sure schools are safe, healing-centered, and not overly policed.
What is school climate and restorative justice?
This fellowship helped Joanne N. Smith launch what would later become GGE.
What is the Open Society Fellowship?
This is the full name of the base for GGE’s new campaign framework.
This area focuses on protecting the rights of young people to access education without barriers like pushout or surveillance.
What is education justice?
This GGE youth program started at Paul Robeson High School and organized dances and workshops for high school girls.
What is Sisters in Strength?
This is the new campaign that GGE is launching (fix this wording).
What is Schools Girls' Demand?
This GGE initiative focused on six key policy areas and called for a Black Girl Bill of Rights.
What is the National Agenda for Black Girls?
This campaign led to NYC committing to hire 7 Title IX Coordinators to protect students from gender-based discrimination.
What is the School Girls Deserve campaign?
In partnership with the City Council, GGE helped launch this initiative, which secured over $20 million in public and private funding for girls and gender-expansive youth.
What is the Young Women’s Initiative (YWI)?
GGE believes transformation happens through these three strategies:
What are policy change, youth-led programming, and cultural shift?