WriteGirl News
ASIAN JOURNAL: First Lady Michelle Obama Inspires Fil-Am Teen
Jacqueline Cablas Uy dreams of someday traveling the world to write newspaper stories that change lives. Growing up in a one-bedroom condo in Los Angeles, she often reads National Geographic and was inspired by the journalists who had the freedom to fly to exotic places and tell the world’s untold stories.
She always worried though that being a minority would limit her options, as she sensed a lack of Filipino American women at the top of the news business. But her WriteGirl mentor Katherine shows her she has the potential to break through barriers and declare her place in journalism.
THE REPUBLIC: First Lady Inspires Young Writers at White House
The eyes of 16-year-old Jacqueline Uy glistened as First Lady Michelle Obama pulled her into a tight hug and whispered in her ear.
"She just told me to keep writing, and that her favorite thing to do was to write," said Uy, a member of WriteGirl, one of 12 after-school programs honored at the White House Nov. 22. "She told me to keep on dreaming, because someday I'll achieve my dreams and goals."
First Lady Honors WriteGirl as a Top After-School Arts & Humanities Program
WriteGirl was honored by the White House in November 2013 with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest honor such programs can receive in the United States. Executive Director and Founder Keren Taylor and WriteGirl participant Jacqueline Uy personally received the award from First Lady Michelle Obama in the East Room of the White House.
SANTA CLARITA SIGNAL: First Lady Honors Nonprofit Serving Santa Clarita Valley
A program to help set girls at two Santa Clarita Valley probationary camps on the road to academic success through creative writing and mentoring has been honored at the White House by first lady Michelle Obama.
Representatives from WriteGirl, a nonprofit that serves girls at Camp Scott and Camp Scudder in Saugus, were presented Friday with the 2013 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program award by Obama in the East Room of the White House. WriteGirl was one of 12 organizations nationwide to receive the honor.
WriteGirl goes to Washington...Our voices have been heard.
Tomorrow, Friday, WriteGirl will go to the White House to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest national honor awarded to such programs. Executive Director Keren Taylor and mentee Jacqueline Uy, age 16, will personally accept the award from First Lady Michelle Obama.
ATVN Spotlight: Lamarana's Local Leader: WriteGirl
ATVN SPOTLIGHT: WriteGirl is a creative writing mentoring program for high school girls," said Keren Taylor, the Founder and Executive Director of WriteGirl. "We pair them with women writers so they get mentored.
Annenberg Alchemy Voices: Keren Taylor
Imagine your nonprofit just got an invitation to start a relationship with one of the biggest foundations in Los Angeles.
But instead of asking you to show off your organization’s accomplishments, the foundation invites you to bring in your biggest challenges and problems so experts can help you resolve, dissolve and advance these issues.
It may sound like a fairy tale, but this opportunity is real.
I know because I’ve experienced it.
Write. Create. Mentor.
Volunteer with WriteGirl and give back to the creative community. Your creative spirits and insights are needed by teen girls in Los Angeles WriteGirl is a non-profit organization that empowers teen girls through creative writing and self-expression. Young writers receive creative techniques and insights through one-on-one mentoring, school programs and monthly workshops.
WriteGirl welcomes Teresa Huang as Public Relations Coordinator
WriteGirl is excited to bring Teresa Huang to the WriteGirl staff to help manage community partnerships and media relations. Teresa has been an active volunteer, mentor and supporter for the past year, and brings a fresh energy and perspective to the WriteGirl Team.
WriteGirl 12th Annual Volunteer Retreat
What a great Volunteer Retreat on Saturday at the GRAMMY Recording Academy! Our end-of-day professional development panel was lively and provocative, featuring (L to R) Liz Kruger (CO-CREATOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of USA Network series Necessary Roughness), Meghan Schumaker (Meghan Schumaker Management) and Amy Schiffman & Leslie Conliffe (Intellectual Property Group/IPG).
WriteGirl Internships
The WriteGirl Bold Futures Program offers an array of learning experiences. Our interns work in groups, pairs and one-on-one, and through these experiences we see natural leadership abilities emerge and grow.
WriteGirl Season 12 Highlights
For nine months, our girls took part in a jam-packed schedule filled with creative writing workshops, led by some of the most influential female writers in the community. With the guidance of these spectacular writers, our girls put their pens to the page and wrote songs, poems, short stories, and scenes. They blogged, they polished their public speaking skills, and they wrote custom Father’s Day poems for our WriteOn! Campaign. They expressed themselves creatively, and formed special bonds with their mentors through weekly meetings.
WriteGirl Intern Dulce Castrejon Speaks On CNN Latino Panel Discussion On Literacy
WriteGirl 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.
WriteGirl Teens Take to the Stage at the LA Times Festival of Books
On April 20th and 21st, 2013, WriteGirl participated in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the USC campus. At the WriteGirl booth, volunteers shared information about our program, sold anthologies, and encouraged visitors to participate in a creative writing activity with prompts like, "What do you do when there's a power outage?" and "Describe the scent of a place you remember from long ago." It was the only booth with brightly colored index cards hanging from strings all over, covered in creative writing.
Renowned Songwriters Help Teen Girls Write Lyrics
In anticipation of the GRAMMY Awards, non-profit organizations come together to create beautiful music for inner city teens at Walt Disney Concert Hall
WriteGirl Teens Read At Skylight Books
A beautiful bookstore in Los Feliz has become a part of WriteGirl tradition. On March 23rd, WriteGirl teens shared creative pieces from "No Character Limit: Truth & Fiction from WriteGirl,” at an independent bookstore called Skylight Books.
KCET Article: Keren Taylor: Right Place, WriteGirl
Each week, Jeremy Rosenberg (@LosJeremy) asks, "How did you - or your family before you - wind up living in Los Angeles?"
This week he hears from Keren Taylor, Executive Director of WriteGirl.
Renowned Songwriters Help Teen Girls Write Lyrics
WriteGirl teens come together to create beautiful music at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Mentor Spotlight: Retta Putignano, Mentor of 3
Every once in while a volunteer comes along who says yes, and keeps saying yes. Yes to one-on-one mentoring. Yes to planning special events. Yes to appearing in front of the entire membership in a play written just hours before by one of our girls.