We Can Make a Difference

The MI9 Team is a group of nine superheroes who joined forces to achieve social change. Each member represents one of the nine multiple intelligences (hence the name of the team: MI9): verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, to name a few and embodies a specific character trait, like leadership, determination and tenacity. They must constantly defend themselves and protect others as they battle against a gang of six supervillains, who are dead set on destroying anything in their paths. MI9 Team introduces each one of the characters and sets the stage for a battle between good and evil.

Dr. Howard Gardner's Official Authoritative Site of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He presented the theory of multiple intelligences for the first time in 1983 in the book Frames of Mind. Since then, the theory has been used in a wide variety of contexts and most frequently in education with students of all levels. Find out more at Gardner’s official MI website at multipleintelligencesoasis.org.

How You Can Get Involved with eGirl Power

Team Up

For Large Groups in the Workplace

This virtual volunteering (remote) opportunity is designed for large groups in the workplace who want to help make a difference; and is also designed to provide a fun team building experience for professionals.

Whether as a networking/getting-to-know-you event or for increasing camaraderie across business departments and offices, your team's participation helps to empower girls to improve their confidence, self-esteem and achieve their full potential.

Team Up

A special thanks to Intel for their teamwork and participation to mentor eGirls!

“My team really enjoyed the activity. We also used it as a networking/getting-to-know-you event, with folks sharing their stories with each other. To start the activity I shared my example. As folks worked on their own forms and stories, we encouraged them to do it together as opposed to quietly on their own. At the end we asked a few people to share what they wrote down. We had a large group of folks, most unfamiliar with each other, so it was fun to hear about everyone’s backgrounds and experiences.” — Intel Engineer

Mentor Girls in your Community

Join a Pow Wow Circle

Join together with other women in an eGirl Power Pow Wow Circle to mentor and empower teen girls in your community. We provide you with a FUN, Engaging and Multimedia Toolkit complete with comprehensive Educational Curriculum, Materials and Resources to guide you through your Mentoring Sessions.

• Leadership Skills Development
• Character Building
• Career Readiness
• Social Issues with a focus on Gender Equality
• more

Girls who have participated in the eGirl Power program showed average gains of 20% improvement in self-esteem, as measured in surveys provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Join a Pow Wow Circle

Female-Led Superheroes Fighting for Gender Equality

Sphinx

Intelligent, dignified, incredibly strong and hardworking, Sphinx possesses a special gift for riddles and is naturally powerful. Learn more

MI: Verbal-Linguistic
Character Trait: Leadership
Social Cause: Gender Equality
Origin: Concordia, Egypt

Athena

Incredibly smart and accomplished, Athena has an impressive career in STEM and is driven by her heart as well as her mind. Learn more

MI: Logical-Mathematical
Character Trait: Determination
Social Cause: Health & Disease
Origin: Havana, Cuba

Hoku

Motivating and hardworking, Hoku finds solace in sports and martial arts, which have strengthened her mind, body and soul. Learn more

MI: Bodily-Kinesthetic
Character Trait: Tenacity
Social Cause: Bullying & Disabilities
Origin: Maui, Hawaii

More About eGirl Power

Who We Are

eGirl Power is an IRS-approved 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to "Educate, Empower and Elevate" females and marginalized groups through leadership development and making an impact to combat Gender-based Violence (GBV) with a focus on Campus Safety for students enrolled in colleges and universities.

What We Have to Offer

eGirl Power helps girls to identify and build upon their personal skills and talents to strengthen their confidence and self-esteem. We do so through leadership skills development, career exploration, educational workshops, youth summits, mentorship and more.

eGirl Power has a simple and straightforward framework that involves the following core pillars:

EDUCATE

eGirls learn and gain knowledge and experience for leadership skills development, career exploration and other key topics. As each and every individual is skilled and talented in different areas, our approach to building self-esteem and confidence in girls is to help them learn about and identify their unique strengths.

EMPOWER

eGirl Power equips girls with the tools for success as they prepare for college and career readiness. eGirls can connect with like-minded individuals, share their personal experiences and stories with a supportive community, and unite with others to make a difference through community involvement and volunteer projects that also provide them with opportunities to grow as future leaders.

ELEVATE

Mentorship with female role models to offer girls advice and guidance on leadership development, career exploration and self-empowerment.

College and Career Readiness for Girls

How Girls Benefit

Instead of what we have to say, we’ll let the current eGirl Power members share with you how eGirl Power has helped them:

Why We Exist

Overcoming the Gender Gap

Girls and the Confidence Gap

Stark gender differences are evident when students express how they perceive their abilities; and data shows that a lack of confidence is negatively affecting girls in the classroom. Research suggests that low confidence among teenage girls will result in failing to achieve their professional potential as women. In fact, only one in three girls with low self-esteem is confident in having a successful career; and this low self-esteem drastically reduces the likelihood of girls to follow ambitious career paths.

The good news is that this is a trait that can be reversed with action. eGirl Power empowers girls to improve their confidence, self-esteem, and achieve their full potential.

Did You Know?
Girls who have participated in the eGirl Power program showed average gains of 20% or more improvement in self-esteem, as measured in self-esteem surveys provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Next Generation of Future Leaders

Research shows that self-esteem and confidence are key to fostering the next generation of future leaders and breaking the glass ceiling.

Females are underrepresented in leadership positions in the U.S. across all sectors and industries, and as it now stands, less than 5% of CEOs in the U.S. are females.

Career Exploration

Educating girls and exposing them to career possibilities, especially in STEM and cybersecurity, at an early age is critical because young students start to form lasting opinions about potential future careers. In fact, 69 percent of women who have not pursued careers in information technology attribute their choice to not knowing what opportunities are available to them, as shared by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Investing in girls is key to narrowing the gender gap in STEM and cybersecurity.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD MEMBER

Anna Rivera de Martinez

Anna Rivera de Martinez has extensive experience as an educator in the Hawaii Department of Education Public Schools. She has worked directly with students in middle schools and high schools for over 30 years.

BOARD MEMBER

Wanda Samson

Wanda Samson supports disadvantaged families through placement into housing and guidance to improve their economic security.

BOARD MEMBER

Morgan Douglas

Morgan has always had a strong passion to help others; she knows the opportunities education can give to girls worldwide that will make their lives better and their own. With education, you have opportunities and equality and with opportunities and equality you have a voice, which is something every girl, in every country should be given as a right.

BOARD MEMBER

Helen Ho, PhD

BOARD MEMBER

Nicole Mahool

Nicole Mahool currently serves as the Dean of Students at Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce in New York City. She has over 13 years of experience as a learning and education professional; and designs and leads educational programs that measurably increase student and staff performance.

BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS

Joyce Kong

Joyce Kong has taught students in Pre-K through 12 in New York City Public Schools since 2000. She is a founding teacher at the Millennium High School, an Adjunct Professor at PACE University, a Teacher Fellow of Pace University STEM Center Collaboratory, and a 2013 Math for America Master Teacher.

BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS

Maria Santiago-Valentin

Maria Santiago-Valentín is a Learning Disabilities Consultant, Behavior Technician, Bilingual columnist and writer of the digital magazines My Trending Stories and Negocios Hispanos USA, Mindfulness practitioner and facilitator, mother of two daughters, and an environmental, education and social justice activist.

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Malek Ben Salem

Malek Ben Salem, PhD was a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. Ben Salem is a cybersecurity researcher based in Washington, D.C. She leads a security research team at Accenture Labs, where her research focuses on behavioral biometrics, IoT security, data protection, security analytics, Blockchain, and cloud and mobile security. She has been a co-principal investigator on several DARPA projects, including active authentication and the Integrated Cyber Analysis System (ICAS). Ben Salem’s research has been featured in DarkReading, NeoworkWorld, and the New York Times, among others. She currently helps clients from various industries (critical Infrastructure, resources, financial services, etc.) adopt innovative security technologies to achieve real cyber risk reduction and to proactively adhere to digital ethics principles in order to earn client’s digital trust—going beyond a compliance-driven security approach. She is also developing AI-based security offerings. Ben Salem is deeply skilled in security vision and leadership, c-suite collaboration, research and development, technology strategy, data science, and security innovation. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and patents.

ADVISORY BOARD

Lysa Myers

Lysa Myers began her tenure in malware research labs in the weeks before the Melissa virus outbreak in 1999. She watched as the Internet grew from small, local bulletin board systems to the World Wide Web, and computer security incidents evolved from virtual urban myth to daily reality. As the landscape has changed, she’s seen how both cybersecurity hiring and education efforts have not quite kept pace, and created a talent gap that continues to widen.

Since then, Myers has used her experiences to help spread awareness of what people can do to maintain an effective security culture. As a Security Researcher for ESET, Vice Chair of CompTIA’s IT Security Community Executive Council, and a frequent contributor to security magazines such as Dark Reading and CSOonline, she continues to advocate for improvements in the security industry.

ADVISORY BOARD

Chris Kubecka

Chris CEO of HypaSec. Previously, Chris headed the Information Protection Group, NOC, SOC & joint-international intelligence team for the Aramco family. Helping to recover Aramco from a nation-state attack, implementing digital security and reconnecting international business operations. Responsible for all digital IT and ICS assets throughout the EMEA region (minus KSA) and Latin America. Subsequently, establishing and assisting global digital security teams, standards, security driven legal contracts for secure software development with third parties, the Aramco EU/UK Privacy group with internal and external council and computer emergency response teams. Chris has practical and strategic hands-on experience in several cyber warfare incidents. USAF Space Command, detecting and helping to halt the July 2009 Second Wave attacks from the DPKR against South Korea and helping to recover and re-establish international business operations after the world’s most devastating cyber warfare attack, Shamoon in 2012. Expert advisor and panellist for several governments and parliaments.

ADVISORY BOARD

Allan Luks

Allan Luks is Founding Director of the Fordham Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Fordham University. A leading expert on volunteerism and named "Nonprofit Leader of the Year" by Crain's New York Business Magazine, he has directed major nonprofit institutions for four decades.

ADVISORY BOARD EMERITUS

Lucia Kaiser

Kaiser is a two-time Emmy Award-Winning Producer whose years of experience scaling the heights of the entertainment industry has won her the respect, accolades, and camaraderie of socialites, business moguls, and celebrities who share her passion for affecting positive change.

ADVISORY BOARD EMERITUS

Dr. Stephen Post

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is a renowned public intellectual, speaker, professor of preventive medicine, and best-selling author. He is Founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

PAY IT FORWARD COMMITTEE

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Morgan Douglas

Morgan has always had a strong passion to help others. As someone who was privileged to gain a primary, secondary and college education, she knows the opportunities education can give to girls worldwide that will make their lives better and their own. With education, you have opportunities and equality and with opportunities and equality you have a voice, which is something every girl, in every country should be given as a right.

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Geoffrey Huys, LFACHE

Geoffrey Huys has devoted his professional career to work in healthcare marketing, public relations and communications. During his career he has served healthcare systems in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. He has worked extensively in market research, strategic planning, marketing/advertising, community relations, internal communications and public relations.

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Becky Lodewyck

As a lifelong learner and educator, Dr. Becky Lodewyck’s driving belief is that education is the key to improving individual lives and supporting the social and economic success of our global community. From driving ongoing improvement in teaching and learning in her leadership roles within higher education to serving as a faculty member, the common theme threading through her work has been to drive ongoing improvement to make a difference in the lives of others.

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Nancy Roman

Accomplished professional with a background in information technology, infrastructure operations, business strategy, IT transformation, service delivery, and vendor management. Presently serving as a volunteer for nonprofit organizations to make a positive impact in local communities.