Empowering Young Women | Comcast Newsmakers

Empowering Young Women - 5:15

with Sue Schooner, Girls Group

Posted Aug 28, 2017

Girls Group empowers young women in middle school and high school to achieve emotional and economic self-sufficiency by graduating from high school and becoming first-generation college graduates. Girls Group provides year round programming and mentoring to develop character, leadership, self-confidence, and social consciousness, including the desire and ability to mentor others. Sue Schooner, Executive Director of Girls Group appears on Comcast Newsmakers. Interview recorded August 24th, 2017.

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