Meet Our Team
GEM (Girls Empowerment Movement) was founded by a group of junior and senior girls at Sage Hill School in Newport Coast, California. We are passionate about building independence and self-esteem in middle school girls. Our goal is to host GEMfest, an event at Sage Hill School with guest speakers and hands-on workshops for approximately 100-200 middle school girls on Saturday, April 28, 2018. GEMfest will provide inspiration and education about tools for success in middle school, high school and beyond, including topics such as entrepreneurship, STEM, body image, relationships and self-confidence.
Eliza Feffer
Eliza Feffer is a junior at Sage Hill School. She has a passion for female empowerment and women’s rights. As a middle school student, Eliza had an interest in entrepreneurship and looked up to strong female leaders and business owners. She joined GEM to teach young girls the importance of raising their voices and working hard to accomplish their goals. Through GEM, she hopes girls will feel inspired to pursue their dreams, discover new interests, and feel confident about themselves and their abilities. Eliza hopes to learn skills that will help her as she enters the business world in the future and instill an interest in entrepreneurship, art, science, and education in other girls.
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Karli Davis
Karli Davis is a junior at Sage Hill School. She has always had a passion for women’s rights and womens empowerment, so when the opportunity came about to start a service learning group dedicated to inspiring young girls to be confident in themselves, she knew this would be a great way to share her enthusiasm toward this subject with the community. Karli believes it is important to help girls at a young age to believe in themselves, and for them to know that they are capable of achieving anything. Gender does not have an impact on one’s abilities in society. Girls have just as an important say as boys do and this project will hopefully allow girls to have an experience that will make them feel strong, confident, and comfortable being a woman.
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Ishani Patel
Ishani Patel is a junior at Sage Hill School. She joined GEM to instill in girls the idea that they deserve and should be empowered to achieve whatever they aspire to in life. She wants to teach young girls the importance of being unapologetically themselves and not being afraid to speak up. She hopes to help break down gender barriers that may already be instilled in these young girls’ minds and work to change their perception on what they can do and accomplish. She has a special interest in the field of female entrepreneurship and hopes to spread and influence others to open their eyes to the idea of becoming future business owners themselves.
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