We Are Girls 2013 Breakout Workshop Providers

Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

The Austin Public Library Friends Foundation supports the Austin Public Library by increasing public awareness about the library and its importance to the community, and by raising funds to enhance library collections, programs, and facilities. Through its Badgerdog program, APLFF offers creative writing workshops in schools and libraries. For more information, email us at [email protected].

Austin Therapy for Girls

Shayna Feldman Barksdale, LCSW, has practiced for the last twenty years. Shayna currently is focused on empowering and connecting young girls and women in her private practice Austin Therapy for Girls (ATFG). Currently, ATFG has several groups running for all ages of girls and young women addressing issues of shame and vulnerability. Based on Brene Brown’s work, Shayna has developed strategies for dealing with the feelings of never being “enough”. For more information visit www.austintherapyforgirls.com.

Ballet Austin’s Butler Community School

Ballet Austin’s Butler Community School engages, educates, and empowers people of all skill levels and economic and cultural backgrounds to adopt healthy lifestyles through dance and regular physical activity. By providing quality instruction in an open and inviting atmosphere classes for kids, teens and adults inspire confidence and encourage fun. For more information call (512) 501-8704 or visit www.balletaustin.org/community.

Barbara Steinberg Presents, LLC.

Barb Steinberg is a teen life coach and workshop facilitator who transforms the lives of adolescent girls and the adults who care about them with practical strategies, insight, compassion and humor. Barb has a knack for quickly getting to the core of the problem and guiding girls and parents toward a solution. Both girls and adults find her extremely easy to relate to, open, warm and funny. Barb is gifted at balancing emotion and intellect and serving as a catalyst for long-lasting change. For more information visit www.barbsteinberg.com.

Candace Avila

Candace Avila, founder of Smart Cookies, leads workshops, classes and summer camps that provide girls with the skills, tools and knowledge they need to successfully navigate girl world and get off the drama coaster. Learn more at www.SmartCookiesSchoolforGirls.com.

Cardea Services

Cardea envisions communities in which all people, especially those who have been most underserved, have equitable access to quality health and human services. We are on a mission to improve organizations’ abilities to deliver accessible, high quality, culturally proficient, and compassionate services to their clients. For more information visit www.cardeaservices.org.

Circle of Health International

Circle of Health International (COHI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) founded in 2004 with the mission to work with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to ensure access to quality reproductive, maternal and newborn care. COHI has responded to 10 humanitarian emergencies and served over three million women, both domestically and internationally. For more information visit www.cohintl.org.

Con Mi Madre

Con Mi Madre, founded as The Junior League’s Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program, increases the Hispanic representation of women in post-secondary educational institutions through a focus on education and social support services to girls and their mothers. We break the cultural barriers that prevent Hispanic girls from reaching their educational dreams. For more information visit www.conmimadre.org.

DELL Wise Employee Resource Group

Women in Search of Excellence (Wise) is the chartered Employee Resource Group at Dell for team members whose interest align with women’s issues. Dell Wise is dedicated to the acquisition, retention and development of female talent, with a focus on community involvement to grow initiatives focused on women in technology.

Engender Health

EngenderHealth is a leading global women’s health organization committed to ensuring that every pregnancy is planned, every child is wanted, and every mother has the best chance at survival. Our Gender Matters initiative is an innovative, science-based intervention that incorporates cutting-edge research on gender-based attitudes and behaviors to address how gender norms impact sexual and reproductive health behavior and to prevent unintended teen pregnancies in Austin, Texas. For more information visit www.engenderhealth.org.

Experiment and Explore

Experiment and Explore is the effort of Valentina Valé to encourage all people to remain friends with their inner artist. Through 3-D exercises, participants explore forms, relationships and functionality; each participant solves their design in a different way as they experience their own choices, taste and pace. When one attends a Jewelry Design Workshop, fulfillment of the need to express one’s individuality can occur. For more information visit www.experimentandexplore.com.

Fran Harris Enterprises, LLC.

Fran Harris Enterprises, LLC is a professional development, event marketing and production company that helps companies and organizations explode their businesses through team building, sales, marketing and social media training. FHE also produces large scale events including seminars, conferences and television events. FHE founded Girls Who Mean Business, a leadership and entrepreneurship initiative for girls. For more information visit www.FranHarris.com and www.GirlsWhoMeanBusiness.com.

Fun Financial Facts

Fun Financial Facts is a program designed to help young girls understand free enterprise concepts. The goal of the program is to introduce a basic understanding of how our financial system works. This will empower young girls by looking at our financial system as a tool to help build their knowledge base and feel confident about their credit history, the stock markets, and other important financial facts. For additional information about the program please contact Koreena Malone at [email protected].

Girls Incorporated of Greater Austin

Girls Incorporated of Greater Austin, Inc. (GIGA) provides intentional and compensatory programming & advocacy projects to girls ages 6-18. At GIGA we have a vision of a world where every girl values her whole self and her inherent strengths; has opportunities to develop her potential; breaks past serious obstacles; and leads a healthy, educated, and successful life. Our mission is empowering girls to realize their full potential through gender specific programming that inspires them to be STRONG, SMART, & BOLD. For more information visit www.girlsincgreateraustin.org

Girlstart

Girlstart is the only community-based informal STEM education nonprofit in the nation specifically dedicated to empowering and equipping girls in STEM through year-round educational programming. Since 1997, we have reached more than 40,000 girls and 6,000 teachers and families with school-based programs, summer camps, college-based workshops, educator training, and community STEM education outreach programs.

Kidpower Austin

Kidpower teaches practical, personal safety skills to protect people of all ages and abilities from bullying, molestation, abduction, and other violence. We use positive age appropriate and relevant role playing to make it fun to learn how to be safe. Our confidence building skills help people to develop positive, nutring relationships that enrich their lives. For more information visit www.kidpower.org.

Kimberlee Anderson

Kimberlee Anderson is an Empowerment Coach Specializing in Discovering, Creating and Living the Life of your Dreams. Living the life we think we should live rather than the life we desire, can make us feel dis-empowered, unfulfilled, lose touch with our inner voice and forget who we are. I am passionate about empowering individuals to rediscover their voice, step into their power, remember their passion and discover how to dream.

Latinitas

Moody Me & Creative Discovery Workshops

Elizabeth Decker, workshop leader, published author, artist and public speaker has been in private and community practice leading creative workshops for teens and adults for the past 6 years in Austin and Los Angeles. She guides people through the creative process in non-traditional art and writing classes, where people are invited to explore, identify, share and embrace their unique creative selves, artistically, with style and a whole lot of fun! Find out more about Elizabeth’s projects and events at www.melancholygirls.com or http://elizabethdeckerproductions.blogspot.com.

Moolah U

Moolah U, where kids get to Be Great, With Money! We are committed to inspiring young people to establish habits that build a life of financial stability and independence. Through our Summer Camp and afterschool programs they develop skills in leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We began franchising so kids everywhere could get this important experiential education.

The National Dating Abuse Helpline

The National Dating Abuse Helpline is a 24-hour resource specifically designed for teens and young adults. It is a service accessible by text, chat or phone with real-time, one-on-one support from peer advocates who answer questions about healthy relationships and dating abuse. For more information visit www.loveisrespect.org.

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood is America’s most trusted nonprofit provider of reproductive health care. Dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable reproductive health care and teen pregnancy prevention education to more than 30,000 men, women, and teens in Austin each year. For more information visit www.plannedparenthood.org/greater-texas/.

Angela Funke, MA, LMFTA

Angela Funke, MA, LMFTA, provides marriage and family therapy specializing in adolescent treatment of anxiety, depression, social and self-esteem issues, self-harm, trauma, and the promotion of a healthy family support system, through creative and cognitive therapies. During sessions, Ms. Funke encourages clients to develop self-confidence and independence, and focus on the present. For more information visit www.rallycadence.com.

Sarah Green

Sarah Green and her siblings were raised by a single mother who struggled with substance abuse. As a young girl she decided that she wanted a different life and made the choice to change her circumstances. At 15 she took on the role of family provider, put herself through college at 18, and graduated in four years, while working full-time. She now is a GM for Dairy Queen and uses her experiences to help her employees prepare for everything from taking their driver’s license test to submitting FAFSA applications for college.

The Smart Girls Group

The Smart Girls Group unites the next generation of superstar women in our unique sisterhood environment while redefining what it means to be smart. Our motto, “Be Smart. Share Smarts.” continues to encourage Smart Girls from middle school to college-age across the globe to utilize their intelligence to live fully and change the world.

WING

WING (Women’s Independence Networking Group) is an organization in the Austin area founded by and for young, independent and creativity oriented businesswomen. Established in 2009, WING focuses on valued networking, connection, motivation and education through programs, meetings and philanthropy events that help empower women to grow their businesses and make life-long connections. For more information visit www.wingofaustin.wordpress.com/.

Yoga RX

Yoga RX provides private consultations, which include a written practice plan & anxiety reducing breathing exercises. Some practice plans may include meditation techniques & philosophical study guides, depending on the individual’s goals. Each practice plan is specifically tailored to meet the individual’s needs, in order to achieve the most consistent, positive results possible.

The YWCA Greater Austin

The YWCA is the largest women’s organization working for social and economic change around the world and in local communities. For more than 100 years, the YWCA Greater Austin has been dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women through its various programs and services. Today, the YWCA Greater Austin focuses on providing specialized mental health counseling for every woman and her family and prevention services for high risk youth. For more information visit www.ywca.org.

Brenda Riviera

When Brenda Riviera became a member of Lifetime Fitness and began to participate in Zumba® Fitness classes. After several classes her confidence grew, and she found herself in the front row, screaming and shouting.Having noticed the physical changes as well as the euphoric impact that Zumba® Fitness had on its participants, Brenda soon became licensed to teach Zumba® Fitness in April of 2012. She now leads 4 Zumba® classes a week!

Tammy Hickman

For Tammy Hickman Zumba® Fitness started with a weight loss journey. She weighed over 220lbs and decided to try Zumba® Fitness at a nearby facility. Every class was a party! Soon she became a licensed Zumba® Instructor and has lost lost 74lbs! Tammy became an instructor to share her story and love for Zumba® Fitness with YOU! For more information visit http://tammyhickman.zumba.com/.