Real Girls, Real Leadership: 11.30.11

Each day, real girls are being real leaders.  Get inspired by their stories:

• Lexi, 14, was frustrated by the fact that there were no female hockey players in the NHL video games she loved playing.  So, she wrote to the gamemaker, calling the exclusion of female players "unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world."  Because of Lexi, female avatars will be used for the first time in NHL 12.  Even better?  The default avatar is modeled after Lexi!
• Stephanie, a high school senior, is an editor for the yearbook, plays tenor sax in concert band, and lettered in tennis this fall...all while recovering from a brain tumor. 

One Step Closer.

Today, we took an important step forward in the creation of The Center for Girls' Leadership. The Articles of Incorporation were sent off to the Minnesota Secretary of State to be filed!

Now the waiting game begins. Once the Articles are filed, we become an official nonprofit corporation under Minnesota law. So exciting! A special thank you to Gina, Salena and Gregg from UST School of Law for helping us draft our Articles of Incorporation!

In other news, we have an official logo! The lovely Colleen Dolphin of Dolphinography created a wonderful image for us to use:

We just love it! A huge thank you to Colleen for contributing her creativity to The Center for Girls' Leadership!

Happy Tuesday!