“I like that you get to be on stage and stuff,” said SWSG third-grader Aamieah Thomas, during her site’s field trip to Duquesne University. As part of the field trip, girls participated in a broadcast journalism workshop, in which they got to be newscasters and see themselves onscreen, reading headlines and reporting the weather. This was one of four workshops that took place last Saturday, when SWSG Pittsburgh’s...

SWSG is pleased to announce that the Pittsburgh Strong Awards will be held on Monday, April 30, 2012 at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. Purchase tickets to the Strong Awards and see detailed event information. Each year at the Strong Awards, every SWSG city recognizes an outstanding community member with the Spark Award. The Spark Award recipient is an individual who embodies the values of Strong Women, Strong Girls – from supporting...

Jonelle Saunders, who served as a mentor with SWSG Pittsburgh when she was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, recently won the Jefferson Award Youth Service Challenge! The award recognized the “Supporting our Cause” service project she created for the SWSG curriculum. As an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Saunders was recently interviewed about the project and her experience with Strong Women, Strong Girls. The...

by Shekeria Chisolm, Strong Women, Strong Girls intern Each week, our mentors go into our partner schools and after-school programs to teach young girls about strong women and the skills they developed throughout their lives. But have you ever stopped to think that we – as adult women – can also learn a thing or two from the curriculum? Just last Saturday, we at the Strong Women, Strong Girls Pittsburgh office were supposed to...

Last month, I introduced my leadership styles blog series and this month, I am kicking off the series by sharing my friend’s, Laura Buddemeyer, Major, US Army, thoughts and reflections on her leadership style. What three words describe your leadership style? Hands-On: It was important for me to show my subordinates that I knew what they did first hand and that I would expose myself to the same things that I asked of them. Mentoring: I...