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A StrongHER Foundation, a HighHER Future Before we talk about leadership, we have to talk about belonging. Nine years ago, the Founder of HighHER TogetHER co-founded non-profit StrongHER TogetHER, which was built on a simple idea: Girls are stronger when they stick together — no matter how different they are. That belief shaped everything that followed. Girls typically join StrongHER TogetHER in fifth grade and remain with their cohort through high school graduation. For eigh

The Expectation of Fairness From a very young age, children expect the world to be fair. You can hear it on any playground. A rule gets bent, a turn gets skipped, a game feels unbalanced — and almost immediately someone says, “That’s not fair.” There’s an assumption built into childhood that fairness is the baseline. That things should work the way they’re supposed to. And for a long time, many kids believe that as you grow up — as you enter the very serious, very smart world

Raise a Hand: The Many Ways a Leader Can Lead Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that leadership looks like raising your hand. Volunteer. Speak up. Step forward. Say yes. And while raising your hand can be a sign of leadership, the truth is more nuanced than that. Because not every raised hand leads well — and not every great leader is the one with their hand in the air. Leadership isn’t about visibility for visibility’s sake. It’s about impact. Let’s talk about

When something really matters, we don’t rush it. We don’t expect a child to master an instrument in a few lessons or excel at a sport after a single season. We understand that skill takes time — repetition, practice, feedback, growth, and sometimes failure along the way. Leadership is no different. And yet, too often, leadership is treated as something girls should simply have — or pick up along the way — rather than something they are taught to build. Leadership Is a Skill,