About Us
Here's what we know for sure: Behind every great woman is a great girl, one who often discovered her own "superpowers" after encountering a powerful female role model. Our mission at Girl360 is to make encounters like this possible by bringing the stories of history's and today's most amazing women to the attention of the next generation of tween girls (9 – 12). We're taking a fresh look at what some of the world's fiercest women and girls have done or are doing, discovering the backstories behind our favorite boundary-pushers. We want to know who they are, how they did it and – newsflash! -- what they were like when they, too, were tweens.
Our on and offline efforts – including our dialogue-driven Girl360 webzine, designer-created tees, and forthcoming book series – are grounded in a simple belief: that discovering a single, sometimes surprising female role model can change a young girl's life. "New media" is our friend, and we want to use it to tell the stories that tweens don't hear often enough, in ways that inspire them. We're not market-driven. We're mission-driven. Around here, it's all about the girls!
Discovering a new world of great girls
Some of the women and girls you'll encounter through Girl360 will be familiar. Others will be relatively new stories we've discovered through our work on behalf of women and girls, and a deep-dive into history (make that "herstory"), where we found dozens of amazing women whose stories have been too often "lost." We can't wait to have you meet them.
The women and girls who are at the heart of Girl360 represent diverse communities and unique perspectives. The only constant? Each has broken through barriers, cast aside conventional thinking and leapt over major hurdles in, if not a single bound, at least a few good tries. We've sought out role models whose stories are meaningful enough to appeal to Moms – and right-this-moment enough to excite and inspire girls.
Our goal is to give tweens a better sense of the women and girls who have come before them, the unique role models all around them and, most importantly, the potential within them. Go, girl!
Keeping it real
According to the 2008 GTrend Report, one of the major research studies on issues impacting young girls, tweens spend an average of 8 hours a day exposed to beauty and celebrity-driven media messages that are too often unhealthy and unattainable. Even positive role models are often "packaged" or "marketed."
The real story is a lot more interesting (and inspiring). Some of the world's most amazing women started out – gasp! – just like us: Sometimes shy, often unsure and almost always challenged with figuring out who they wanted to be in a world that was busy telling them who they should be.
Find our more about us (or tell us more about the women who inspire you!). Email us at info@girl360.net.
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