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Meet The "Girls" Behind Girl 360

Aimee Noffsinger, Administrative Assistant

She's passionate, dedicated, and never afraid to roll up her sleeves and go to work. As our Administrative Assistant, Aimee makes sure things happen on-time and on-budget (but we still like her). Aimee has a history of working on the operations side of local and national non-profits, including The Soup Kitchen, Ronald McDonald House, and The Loyola Ministry Center, where Aimee coordinated and administered food and clothing drives for four years. Most recently, Aimee has served as the Development and Administrative Director of The Voices and Faces Project, a national non-profit created to give voice and face to women and girls who have survived sexual violence.

Yumi Minamikurosawa, Design Director

With to-die-for design skills and her own unerring sense of personal style, Yumi is a girl on a mission of her own: to help us create a line of Girl360 products that are as tween fashion-friendly as they are fun. It's a job she's uniquely suited for. Recently named (by Chicago Magazine) one of the city's most fashionable women, Yumi mixes the bold (her tee-shirt collection is legendary) with the beautiful (plenty of vintage) to create a look that's all her own.

Paula Winicur, Book Designer

As a young girl growing up in small-town Indiana, Paula learned that strong female role models play an important role in the life of young girls. When proudly accompanying her mother, a biology professor, to work, she made her first fashion statement, wearing a t-shirt proclaiming "A Woman's Place is in the House ... and the Senate" (yes!). After relocating to New York, she went to work for Simon and Schuster, one of the top children's book publishing houses. We love her creative aesthetic, but it's Paula's total dedication to all things "girl" that really wows us.

Amy Olson, Research Director

She is a Lexington-based children's librarian with a Masters in Library Science and an encyclopedic knowledge of great books past, present and (we like to think) future. As Girl360's resident authority on children's literature, Amy's eyes and ears are always open. She keeps us appraised of the books that are making their mark in the marketplace, and keeps us focused on our mission: meeting the needs of moms, and their kids. Her research skills are equally formidable, and Amy goes to great lengths to help us uncover what history's great women were like when they were simply ... great girls. Equally importantly, Amy has made an eight-year career out of raising an outspoken, opinionated and (surprise, surprise) passionate young reader of her own: her daughter Toria.

Lee Tracy, Fine Artist/Illustrator

Lee Tracy was born in Maine and raised in "Waldon Pond" territory. Her grandmother was an early influence on Lee's environmental and pro-woman ethic, and visits to her grandmother's home in the middle of Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) made a powerful impression. Lee's painting, public art and projects have been reviewed in Public Art Review, The Chicago Tribune, The New Art Examiner, TimeOut Chicago and The Chicago Reader, among other publications. To find out more about Lee, visit LeeTracy.com.

Carrie Wicks, MA, ATR/Clinical Art Therapist

Carrie Wicks, MA, ATR is a Clinical Art Therapist and Family Consultant who works in private practice in Petaluma, CA. She brings together practical advice, creative explorations of the individual’s life experience and a compassionate understanding of what it is like to grow up in this crazy culture. For more information about her work or to contact her, go to Art Speak Consulting

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Special thanks to our web designer (and longstanding BFF) Nobuko Nagaoka. Her creative brilliance is matched only by her awesome ability to keep us moving forward at breakneck pace. To find our more about Nobuko, visit Kuma Design.

Everything we know about programming, we learned from Jerry Cobb and Max Seim, our patient, pleasant and hyper-competent webmasters.

Thanks to Just Promos for their quality printing services for the
t-shirts and greeting cards.