This post was written by communications intern, Emely Paulino.
On Thursday, June 5th, the Ghanaian Women’s Social Leadership Program (GWSLP) visited our office to learn more about Girls Write Now and what we do. Affiliated with NYU-Wagner’s Research Center for Leadership in Action, GWSLP is comprised of fifteen Ghanaian women who are leaders in several social change programs in Ghana. Their mission is to develop the skills and knowledge to create effective social change in their communities. Many of the women are involved in human rights advocacy, gender rights and social change.
The site visit was structured Girls Write Now workshop style, with a Opening Lines exercise that asked them to think about a moment where they felt inspired. We also began the workshop by discussing what mentoring means to them and sharing their own experiences as either a mentee or a mentor. Led by Emily Coppel, our Digital Program Manager, the workshop focused on our unique mentoring program and how we have expanded over the years into three different programs: Writing and Mentoring, Digital Media Mentoring, and College Bound. Emely Paulino and Natalia Vargas-Caba answered questions about college prep, their experience as mentees and as participants in the Youth Board and GWN’s internship program. After the workshop, the women from GWSLP were eager to create a similar program in Ghana. We loved speaking to them and meeting other amazing women!