believe.

On Saturday, May 5, 2012, the Center for Girls' Leadership will be hosting the first ever Lead Today 5K, a fun run/walk to raise funds for our awesome programs!  This is our first big fundraising event for the Center and I am amazed by the generosity of people.

This past Sunday, the Board met to finalize our planning for the event and to decide what our worst case scenario would be.  See at that point, we only had 5 people registered for the event.  We had about 20 people indicate interest but our numbers weren't looking hot.

Here's where faith comes in.  I believe in the Center for Girls' Leadership, I believe in our Board, and I believe in the generosity of other people.  In less than two days, we have 50 people signed up for the 5K!! You just gotta believe and good things will happen!

If you haven't signed up yet, there's still time!  Click here to register! 

The Importance of Education

It has been a while since I've posted on the blog.  As much as I would love to devote all my time to building the CGL and advocating for issues that pertain to girls, sometimes I can't.  And this is one of those times.


Currently, our six board members are all in graduate school.  In less than a month, five of us will graduate from law school.  The past two months have been filled with reading assignments and final papers, all trying to wrap up what for most of us will be our last semester of school.  Ever.


This is crazy to me.  I've been in school for 20 of my 26 years.  It's a life I've come to know well.  While some days I ache for a normal life with a normal job, it is bittersweet to say goodbye to life as a student.  


For years my mother has instilled in me the power of education.  "School comes first," she used to say when I'd get busy with extracurricular activities.  That focus has served me well.  Right now, school comes first; CGL comes second.


My mother's other favorite saying is "No one can take away your education."  And she's right.  People come and go.  Fate changes the circumstances of life.  But my one constant will be my education.  I am so happy I went as far as I could with school.  No one can take away the fact that I am graduating law school.


These life lessons are ones that I will instill in my children some day, just as my mother taught me.  And I hope that each girl that the CGL reaches will learn that academics are the basic foundation for leadership.  School must always come first.