GIRLS WHO ROCK concert -- the "new kids" at Internet Week NY, an entire week of techy events and shows, last year, -- organized in two months and two days -- was the most surreal experience, and now we're BACK making plans for a bigger & better experience in support of girls and education in June 2011.
My background is from restauranteur, to journalist producer, to music manager to now law student and tech enthusiast and now co-creator of GIRLS WHO ROCK concert! I also serve as board member to She's the First, the nonprofit which GIRLS WHO ROCK supports by fundraising for girls' education, the goal is to help girls be the first in their families to graduate from school...maybe they'll become the first woman president, or first female doctor in their village. The possibilities are endless.
GIRLS WHO ROCK concert started out as a project between two strangers with a passion of collaboration and social justice. GIRLS WHO ROCK motto is "music is universal. Education should be too." That is where the concept for our signature benefit concert, GIRLS WHO ROCK, came from -- we presented seven recording artists (headlined by Kat DeLuna), and raised $6,000 to sponsor three girls in Tanzania, whom we maintain year-round correspondence with, which our blog and the attached document illustrate.(Short video here)
She's the First is committed to girls worldwide who are trying to break the poverty cycle by getting an education -- as you might have read in Half the Sky, when a girl is educated, there are so many positive correlations: she has fewer children, makes a higher income, improves her health, reduces her likelihood of an early and abusive marriage, etc.
The attached PDF will give you a full sense of what GIRLS WHO ROCK is about.
My background is from restauranteur, to journalist producer, to music manager to now law student and tech enthusiast and now co-creator of GIRLS WHO ROCK concert! I also serve as board member to She's the First, the nonprofit which GIRLS WHO ROCK supports by fundraising for girls' education, the goal is to help girls be the first in their families to graduate from school...maybe they'll become the first woman president, or first female doctor in their village. The possibilities are endless.
GIRLS WHO ROCK concert started out as a project between two strangers with a passion of collaboration and social justice. GIRLS WHO ROCK motto is "music is universal. Education should be too." That is where the concept for our signature benefit concert, GIRLS WHO ROCK, came from -- we presented seven recording artists (headlined by Kat DeLuna), and raised $6,000 to sponsor three girls in Tanzania, whom we maintain year-round correspondence with, which our blog and the attached document illustrate.(Short video here)
She's the First is committed to girls worldwide who are trying to break the poverty cycle by getting an education -- as you might have read in Half the Sky, when a girl is educated, there are so many positive correlations: she has fewer children, makes a higher income, improves her health, reduces her likelihood of an early and abusive marriage, etc.
The attached PDF will give you a full sense of what GIRLS WHO ROCK is about.
This year, GIRLS WHO ROCK concert will fundraise for girls education at Arlington Academy of Hope in rural Uganda, one of she's the first partner schools. We entirely produce the concert with women in highshcool, college and young professionals from NYC and surrounding areas.
GIRLS WHO ROCK Concert
Friday June 10th 2011
Gramercy Theater, NY
Doors open 8pm
Tickets on sale begin in May
Donation can be made via www.girlswhorock.causevox.com
For more info www.girlshworock.org
