Girls Prep, Inc.

A great experience
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To retreat, rest, recalibrate and relax is a unique shared experience. We thank our speakers for sharing their talents and giving their time today!
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Guest Speaker: Ashley Peel

A Space for Grace
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Ashley Kerri Peel joined KIPP DC in June 2011 as a Kindergarten teaching resident and is currently the Principal of KIPP DC Grow Academy. In this role, she leads alongside amazing educators who work tirelessly to provide unconditional love & high-quality instruction to all students. Ashley is a Posse Scholar from the Bronx, New York. She obtained her BA from Dickinson College and her Executive Master’s in Leadership at Georgetown University.

When Ashley isn’t working, they can be found reading a book, leading poetry workshops, or hanging with her partner, Cassie, and her dog Nahla. We are excited to hear from Ashley at our annual and we look forward to the creative journaling session Ashley is leading!

🚨Saturday September 7th🚨

A Space for Grace 💖

Today we are hosting our 3rd annual leadership retreat! This year’s theme is focused on well-being and understanding what tools can be use to eliminate stress. So that you can ultimately show up as the best version of yourself. Becoming a better you, makes you a better leader!

🚨Saturday September 7th🚨

A Space for Grace 💖

We are excited to host our 3rd annual leadership retreat! This year’s theme is focused on well-being and understanding what tools can be use to eliminate stress. So that you can ultimately show up as the best version of yourself. Becoming a better you, makes you a better leader!

Guest Speaker: Charlene Osei

A Space for Grace
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Charlene Osei, is a dedicated entrepreneur, content creator, and the visionary behind CocoaShea, a skincare brand known for its high-quality, natural products. With a passion for promoting self-care and wellness, Charlene has built a thriving business that offers not only exceptional skincare solutions but also educational classes that empower individuals to better understand and care for their skin.

Her influence extends through social media, where she inspires others with messages of confidence, community support, and personal growth. As a panel speaker she brings her real-world experience of navigating entrepreneurship, balancing creativity with business acumen, and encouraging young women to embrace their power and potential in the business world. We are excited to hear from Charlene at our annual and learn how to make shea products!

🚨Saturday September 7th🚨

A Space for Grace 💛💖💛

We are excited to host our 3rd annual leadership retreat! This year’s theme is focused on well-being and understanding what tools can be use to eliminate stress. So that you can ultimately show up as the best version of yourself. Becoming a better you, makes you a better leader!

Why use LinkedIn
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It’s a platform for your professional profile to exist online and gain visibility. There’s so many networking features and you can share your professional experiences with others.

Lean in and used to help jump start your career while in college.

Leveraging LinkedIn
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Happening today is our Summer Seminar on how to leverage for your career during and post college graduation.

Our board will lead protégés through discovery and demonstrate how to best utilize the LinkedIn Platform.

✔️Why Linked in matters
✔️Crating a professional ID
✔️Navigating career opportunities
✔️Building a network
✔️Engaging with content

Grad Szn! 👩🏽‍🎓🎓

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Celebrating our graduates is the end goal. What it takes to get here is pairing them with a mentor that will support them through sometimes both high school and college.

We are thrilled to say Nia and Anna were paired in 2020 during Nia’s senior year of high school through college graduation! These two made great efforts to connect digitally and in person until our world post pandemic normalized. We are so excited for your future and we want to thank your mentor .ashe for consistently supporting your goals and visions.

Our board was happy to help celebrate you both at our Grad Brunch!

We celebrated Nia and her graduation from Howard University. Nia started her mentoring experience with girls PREP in 2020. To start college during the pandemic is a very unique experience where many students weren’t able to socially connect in person. Although on campus and living in a dorm, she had to take all of her classes online.

Nia, majored in Strategic Communications with a concentration in Advertising. She graduated magna cm laude, excited to start her career in sports!
She was in three campus organizations throughout her time at Howard, she completed three internships as well. Most notably were her internship experiences at The National African American Insurance Association and Naris Communications.
We are thankful to Nia and her mentor Anna .ashe for allowing Girls PREP to provide leadership development and career planning to her make up bag of skills!

Today we celebrate and wish her well on her next chapter in life. Post grad life can be exciting and it can create the ultimate catapult into adulthood where you establish a career and stability.

Nia you have been a pleasure to help and support and we are excited to celebrate you!

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🚨Speak to Lead🚨

Join on Wednesday May 15th to hear from our guest speaker Crystal Berger. This seminar is designed to help you gain insights from a communications career professional. Crystal Berger will share what it takes to speak with confidence and give tips on how to use your voice in leadership.

Join us at 7pm on Wednesday May 15th via Zoom. Register to attend for free using the Google Form link in our bio above.

This spring seminar is intended for young women ages 16-24 who are in either high school or college.
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🚨Speak to Lead🚨

Join on Wednesday May 15th to hear from our guest speaker Crystal Berger. This seminar is designed to help you gain insights from a communications career professional. Crystal Berger will share what it takes to speak with confidence and give tips on how to use your voice in leadership.

Join us at 7pm on Wednesday May 15th via Zoom. Register to attend for free using the Google Form link in our bio above.

This spring seminar is intended for young women ages 16-24 who are in either high school or college.
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Wishing you each a Happy Holidays!
➡️ swipe to see more pics from our get lit holiday party! 🔥

Everyone had a great time making candles at home. 🎄❤️

Today we host our virtual holiday party and can't wait to get 🔥 with some super cute candles from our host company we are super excited to learn how to make candles today!

Click the link in our bio to register for our 30 minute Mentor Showcase event.

Sign on to Zoom and get to know more about and what we are looking for in a mentor!

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Calling all women who have graduated from college and have at least 3 years of career experience!

Let's help one another this holiday season and volunteer to help other young women succeed and follow their dreams of achieving a college degree! 🎓👩🏽‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓👨🏿‍🎓🎓
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Click the link in our bio to register for our 30 minute Mentor Showcase event.

Sign on to Zoom and get to know more about and what we are looking for in a mentor!

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Calling all women who have graduated from college and have at least 3 years of career experience!

Let's help one another this holiday season and volunteer to help other young women succeed and follow their dreams of achieving a college degree! 🎓👩🏽‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓👨🏿‍🎓🎓
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is a global day of giving and unity that will take place on Nov 28th!

Donations will be used to create dynamic programming for Girls Prep protégés and grow our organization. We depend on donations to hold programs for Girls Prep proteges such as our annual Fearless Leadership Retreat, vision board event, and to bring in speakers who facilitate discussions on networking, leadership, and other topics related to career development. Please consider donating during this season!

Creating change for young women through leadership development and career planning. We leverage technology to help graduate black and brown scholars!

Mentoring is our method, developing quality programming is our process.

is rapidly approaching and we would love to reach our goal of raising $5k for Girls Prep. The money will help support the engaging events we hold to help our young women with career prep!

Also, if you’re unable to give this year, just know sharing this post with someone who can helps just as much! 🫶🏼

Looking back at all the beautiful smiles from our successful fundraiser, Autumn Elixir! We had an amazing time at the beautiful with exclusive cocktails and mocktails from .bartender - Keep swiping for all the faces that were in the place🤗

No better time than now to buy tickets for our fall fundraising event - Autumn Elixir! Learn how to make three fall cocktails from .bartender all for $40! All proceeds go to Girls Prep. Tickets available in bio - get them now before they’re gone!

🍁Join us THIS SATURDAY 10/14 for our Autumn Elixer: Cocktails & Mocktails making session!

Learn how to make some of fall’s hottest drinks from master mixer .bartender - all while supporting Girls Prep!

Tickets on sale via link in bio. If you can’t make it please like, save and share!🍁

Join Girls Prep for our Autumn Elxir fundraising event!
Elite bartender Cassie (.bartender) will walk us through curated cocktails & mocktails perfect for the season!
Tickets available at the link in bio. See you Saturday!

Always remember that!

Our Annual Leadership retreat is over & it could not have been done without the amazing talents of mixologist & entrepreneur Cassie!

Cassie led our mentors & mentees in our cocktail/mocktail making session! Swipe to see the fun😉.

You can catch Cassie at our Autumn Elixir: Mastering Mocktails & Cocktails Fundraising event on 10/14. Stay tuned for deets!

A lesson in leadership from one powerful woman to another (🫵🏽)!

🚨Guest Speaker Alert🚨

Tamara Fletcher, PhD |Director, Global DEI Advancement at CDW

Dr. Fletcher is the Director of Global DEI Advancement at CDW, where she she leads CDW’s strategic DEI efforts. Dr. Fletcher engages leadership in their commitment and involvement of DEI, develops and facilitates DEI Education and Awareness strategies, designs and develops CDW’s DEI communication strategies, and leads organizational projects designed to attract, retain, engage and mobilize diverse talent. Additionally, she is responsible for CDW’s Global DEI Strategy, as also serves as a DEI Business Partner to Executives. Lastly, she also maintains strategic oversight of CDW’s eight Business Resource Groups (BRGs).
Fletcher began her CDW career in 2005 as an Account Manager within CDW-Government’s State and Local Segment. After a year in sales, she joined the Sales Operations division where she quickly advanced into leadership as Supervisor of the CDW’s Acount Manager Sales Assistant Program. In 2011, Fletcher was promoted to Sales Support Manager, where she became responsible for the administrative support of CDW’s entire sales organization. She has been in Diversity Equity and Inclusion since 2013.

Dr. Fletcher graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 2005. She obtained her Masters of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan Univerisity in 2011. In 2016, she received her PhD in Organizational Leadership through the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her dissertation was entitled “Beyond The Barriers: Exploring the Impact of Feedback on Breaking the Glass Ceiling for African American Women”. She is also a 2019 Fellow of the Chicago Urban League’s IMPACT Development program.