Mobilizing Girls in the Global South To Create and Lead Social Change
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
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What happens when you engage marginalized communities to ask adolescent girls what they want to see changed? What happens when you work with them and partner with local organizations to begin addressing the social change they want to see? In our conversation today, we talked about just this! We speak with Julia Lynch, Founder of Global Girl Project. Julia identifies as a queer woman of color who believes in the power of girls and women to create the change they want to see in their communities. We talk about the approach of Global Girl Project to work with marginalized adolescent girls specifically in countries in the Global South. Through our conversation with Julia you will:
- Learn about Global Girl Project’s approach to working with girls of the Global South through asking the girls what it is they want to see changed especially when it comes to addressing gender and racial inequities
- Listen to how this initial inquiry leads to the girls creating their own community event to highlight the change they want to see
- Hear how Global Girl Project uses the Blended Learning Leadership Initiative as an entry point to the more work they do with the girls
- Understand the meaning of the term Global South and how it replaces the colonial term ‘developing countries’
- Hear how Global Girl Project strategically collaborates with organizations embedded in these communities
- Understand how the Global Girl Project helps the girls to realize both their own voice and the power that they have, both needed in order to create change.
- Discover how Global Girl Project does development by leveraging solutions that come directly from the community
More about Julia Lynch
I am queer woman of colour who believes in the power of girls and women to create the change they want to see in their communities. I am the founding director of Global Girl Project, which is an international NGO that mobilizes the most marginalized girls in our world to become agents of social change. I am a boat dweller, a Capoeirista and a believer in the power of being of service to others and stepping outside your comfort zone to create true and meaningful change.
