One of Melanie Gonzalez’s most memorable WriteGirl memories was of a journalism workshop she attended as a mentee. It was the first time she had met a journalist, so she spent the workshop “grilling her [mentor] about her job.”
The former WriteGirl mentee now gives back as a WriteGirl mentor while she continues to pursue her passion for writing and journalism.
As a reporter for The Huffington Post, WriteGirl alumna Ariel Edwards-Levy has worked on national elections and now oversees the online newspaper’s first all-female polling team in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreFormer WriteGirl mentee Jeanine Daniels is making headlines for all the “write” reasons. Her latest short film “Social Media Movement” is currently airing on TV One as part of the "Change Agents: History in the Making" series in honor of Black History Month.
Read MoreWriteGirl Intern and Alumna appear for a live interview on the television show, Sin Limites hosted by Elizabeth Espinosa on CNN Latino. The topic was literacy and the upcoming Festival of Books WriteGirl reading.
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WriteGirl was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award
An initiative of the President’s Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (PCAH). The President’s Committee partners with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to administer the program.
WriteGirl is a creative writing and mentoring organization that promotes creativity, critical thinking and leadership skills to empower teen girls.
WriteGirl is a project of Community Partners, a nonprofit charity exempt from federal income tax under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
