This group of young women is extremely special and we couldn’t be more proud of them. The Girls Advisory Board (GAB) was first brought together in 2005 in an effort to maintain girls’ voices at the center of everything Hardy Girls Healthy Women does. Members join GAB from all around the state to engage other [...]
Girls Rock! Awards Title IX Award Winner 2013 Anne McIntire, age 18 from Harpswell Anne McIntire was seven years old when she stepped off the ice after figure skating practice and told her dad that she was bored, and would rather play hockey. Anne played hockey with the boys from first grade to seventh grade. [...]
Girls Rock! Awards Against the Odds Award Winner 2013 Adrienne Damicis, age 17 from Scarborough Adrienne Damicis, now a senior at Scarborough High School, was born with a congenital heart defect and had three open heart surgeries before she reached seven years old. She was also born needing an amputation, and now wears a prosthetic [...]
Girls Rock! Awards Entrepreneurship Award Winner 2013: Dérian Gatewood, age 17 from Dexter Young businesswomen could take a lot of tips from Dérian Gatewood, owner of Dragonfly Designs in Dexter, Maine. Having to work hard to overcome a traumatic brain injury as a toddler, Dérian faced more than the average kind of childhood challenges, yet [...]
Girls Rock! Awards Health Advocacy Award Winner 2013: Peyton Feener, age 17 from Camden Peyton Feener, a member of the Community School in Camden, is a passionate voice for young girls everywhere to look up to. She is a true activist and advocate at heart. Peyton has been involved for three years with the organization [...]
Girls Rock! Awards Community Organizing Winner 2013: Jasmine and Christina Smedberg, age 13 from Waterville Last October, Jasmine and Christina, seventh graders at Waterville Junior High School, stood in front of a crowd at the Concourse, wearing t-shirts they had decorated in brightly colored anti-bullying messages. The twins had organized what they hoped to be [...]
Hardy Girls Healthy Women is celebrating Maine girls during its 6th annual Girls Rock! Weekend, April 5-6. The weekend includes our 5th annual Girls Rock! Awards, a ceremony that recognizes the accomplishments of five exceptional Maine girls. Here are the five fantastic girls we will honor this year: Against the Odds Award: Adrienne Damicis, 17, [...]
Her Story is a monthly blog series featuring personal stories about how Hardy Girls has influenced girls’ lives. By Lizzie Woodbury Twelve-year-old Kayla Begin recently visited her old first grade teacher who had only one thing to ask of her former student: “Are you still light years ahead of the rest of your class?” Kayla [...]
Here at Hardy Girls we are so thrilled that co-founder and senior researcher, Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, has been selected for induction into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Join us at the Induction Ceremony on Saturday, March 16th at the University of Maine – Augusta at 2pm, following a Silver Tea at 1pm. For [...]
How many of you watched the Super Bowl last weekend? Ever since Sunday, social media and new outlets have been abuzz with talk about the sexualized nature of many of the Super Bowl ads and the halftime show. Helen Drinan wrote a great piece on what the Super Bowl tells us about the need for [...]