Girl Talk Features

Girl Talk is an opportunity for our Girls Build leaders and the members to interact with female professionals and their teachers in a different lens. They get time to learn about their personal background and their careers in a safe space where they discuss the challenges of becoming successful or overcoming obstacles that our classmates may encounter.

10.10.2019 | Rosa Pastor

LA PROMISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Ms. Rosa Pastor was our special guest for the first ever Girl Talk event this 2019! Ms. Pastor is a returning math teacher at LA Promise Charter Middle School. When she is not teaching seventh grade math, she hosting sessions on the topics of College and Career Readiness.
A native to Southern California, Ms. Pastor attended undergrad in Virginia and studied mathematics. She returned to South Los Angeles knowing she wanted to help support young adults in becoming more informed about various professions, such as those in healthcare.
Her message to the Girls Build participants this year is to stayed inspired and to support each other because women must thrive together to be successful.
We thank Ms. Pastor for spending time with us and to share so much about her latin heritage and her career journey. (Photo Credit: LA Promise Fund)

10.21.2019 Ms. Jacobson

LA PROMISE FUND

Ms. Donna Jacobson is the Director of Schools for the LA Promise Fund Public Schools. During the team's meet-n-greet, Ms. Jacobson shared her career journey as a educator from her undergraduate studies to obtaining her graduate degrees from various Universities throughout Southern California.
As an advocate for public schools, Ms. Jacobson has taught various grade levels, have worked for traditional and charter school districts. It is her vision that all students experience a quality learning experience so they may grow up to find their passion through a college or career interest they and their families will be proud of. She supports students by working with school site administrators and support teachers, specifically new teachers and teacher candidates, as a mentor and building programs to produce quality educators.
Her message is clear, everyone has an opportunity to be a leader and there is no excuse to not be one. Ms. Jacobson has called for our team to lead as role models through actions and to inspire our classmates too.

11.14.2019 | Anne Beck

STARRY INTERNET

Anne Beck is the Customer Success Manager for Starry Internet - Los Angeles in Los Angeles. Our Girls Build team hosted Ms. Beck to acquire more information about Ms. Beck, her college & career path, and the importance of women in TECH! She was generous with her time, advice, and tips for improving our team's website. We learned website should:
1. Have easy navigation2. a clear message,3. Opt-in give away,4. About page5. Contact page.... And thank you for your awesome swag and for your insight!

12.16.2019 | Jennieke Cohen

HarperCollins Publishers

Jennieke Cohen is the author of Dangerous Alliance, published by HarperCollins Teen. She shared with us the process of precision resource of primary sources to paint a thorough and believable picture of young women and sexism that they may experience throughout time. She taught us that a book needs to have accurate details down to a ice cream machine from the 1700s.
Instagram: @jennieke_cohen https://www.instagram.com/jennieke_cohen/?hl=en

1.16.20 | Taylor Harris

LA PROMISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Mrs. Harris our 6th Grade History teacher and has a 7th Grade Advisory. This is her first year at LA Promise Charter Middle School. She is the first to graduate from her family and is originally from Arizona. We learned a lot about her message on kindness to others and how it is a leadership quality. After we had a mini SPA day! And with Ms. Mar we learned about the nutrients in the packages and how our cell membrane in the skin, our body's largest organ, diffuses chemicals. Check out Ms. Harris Instagram: @history_harris19

1.18.20 | Jazmin Angulo

LA PROMISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Ms. Angulo is a history teacher for our school. Each year, she tries to attend the LA Women's March in support of women's rights. She attended the event and hoped that see would see her students there. She was joined by her sister who is also a teacher. Even though she did not see her students at the event, she founded the Women's Empowerment Club at our school and they meet every Thursday at lunch.
Ms. Angulo's Instagram:

2.11.20 | Malika Boyer

LA PROMISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Be your own queen! That is Ms. Boyer's message to our team and young ladies. Ms. Boyer has been teaching 6th grade at LA Promise Charter Middle School for 3 years. During our session, you had us participate in something unique that allow us to be more aware of OURSELVES and OTHERS. The activity allowed us to reflect and take a moment to think quietly because our school can be crazy sometimes. She shared with us a poem teaching us how to be our own queens and to be successful in the environments around us. We loved the personal time with Ms. Boyer. And then we were able to engineering our own crowns with pipe cleaners of various colors. And it worked!

3.23.20 | Karla Amador

52 Hike Challenge

Karla Amador is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and founder of the 52 Hike Challenge; a global movement that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world to get outdoors and take advantage of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits gained through hiking once a week for a year. She is also the CEO of “THRIVE” - a cloud-based bookkeeping and consulting firm that specializes in Quickbooks.
Her story about growing up in Los Angeles, being a single-mother, and creating her own businesses since the age of 24 years old was very inspiring. We learned about eCommerce and were able to ask questions about how to market a brand successfully. Instagram @52hikechallenge https://www.instagram.com/52hikechallenge/?hl=en

3.25.20 | Deana Vazquez

Long Beach Memorial Hospital

Deana is a nurse (RN, BSN) and completed her schooling in Philadelphia! She is originally from California and works as an ER doctor here in Long Beach! During our Zoom she gave us the history of nurses in the US and their role in providing health and safety different many important historical times and daisy needs. She shared with us how nurses are trained in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and how it has changed her work procedures.

4.16.20 | Courtney St. Peters

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Courtney St. Peters joined us from Central time in Chicago, IL to teach us a bit about nuclear energy and what the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission does. She is a nuclear engineer and shared how a teacher laughed at her when she decided she wanted to pursue this specific STEM route. We were also thankful that she presented to our Girls Build community and about 20 people joined in on our Zoom meeting. Thank you everyone for supporting one another during this time!
For more information: https://www.nrc.gov/

4.30.20 Alba Tejda

LA PROMISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Alba Tejeda is in her last week of studying in Loyola Marymount University. She is a counselor at LA Promise Charter Middle School. She taught us some quick techniques to calm, ground, center, and relax our bodies and minds. She learn some breathing technique from her counselor because of stress when she was a teenager. We were also thankful that she showed our girls build community and the 9 people these breathing technique because of these hard times. Thank you to the 9 people that joined on our zoom meeting. Thank you everyone for supporting one another during this pandemic!

Page updated

Report abuse