Welcome SheHeroes to our2025 Holiday Newsletter

What a whirlwind of a year it's been! Time to bring it to a close by celebrating the holidays with family, friends and loved ones. We hope you have lots of free time to love, laugh and enjoy all the blessings that this time of year offers.

We also want to express our thanks to our many supporters and followers. We have been inspiring girls with career role models for sixteen years now. We could not do it without your help!

If you are considering making an end of year donation to a worthy charity, we encourage you to support SheHeroes. Your donation, no matter how small, helps us keep creating meaningful content that girls can use toward imagining an exciting future. And who wouldn't want to invest in that!?

Just click HERE to donate! From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your support!

SHEHERO ACTIVISM PANEL WITH SALLY LIEBER & IDARAOSE SYLVESTER

If this last year has left you feeling overwhelmed and helpless from the barrage of news and current events, you'll want to check out this Meet Your SheHero panel with activists Sally Lieber and Idarose Sylvesteer. Do you wonder how just one person can make a difference? As the No Kings marches have demonstrated, when people unite in action, they create an unstoppable force for change.

Sally and IdaRose discussed what it means or takes to become an activist or community organizer, and shared the many ways you can make a difference in your community right where you are.

SALLY LIEBER: Assemblywoman Lieber was endorsed by the California State
Democratic Party for Board Member of the California State Board of Equalization, District 2. She won the seat in 2022.Sally Lieber serves as the Vice Chair of the California State Board of Equalization, California's elected statewide tax body. She was previously Mayor of the City of Mountain View and served in the California State Assembly, where she represented the 22nd Assembly District. In 2022,

IDAROSE SYLVESTER: IdaRose Sylvester has been a community organizer since 2017, with a focus on progressive political causes. In 2025 IdaRose helped to create several large scale events, including a 20,000 person seven mile chain of activism with fellow organizer Sally Lieber. IdaRose leads a successful consulting practice, Silicon Valley Link. She currently teaches leadership and entrepreneurship and serves on the Mountain View Human RelationsCommission.

Click HERE to watch!

FROM THE SHEHEROES VIDEO LIBRARY

If you're relaxing over the holidays and looking for some interesting content, can we recommend our SheHeroes video library?

Every other month we host a zoom event with a woman role model so girls can see and hear for themselves what it's like to work in a specific career, along with the steps needed to achieve it. Here's a sampling for our library, just click on the titles to view::

FBI AGENT MARTY PARKER

CEO COSMETICS COMPANY NATALIE MACKEY

TV NETWORK EXECUTIVE MARGARET LOESCH

POLICE CHIEF ERIKA SHIELDS

VOLCANOLOGIST ROSALY LOPES

PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL COACH JEN WELTER

FIRE CAPTAIN CINDIE SCHOONER BALL

SHEHEROES BOOK CLUB

Did you know that SheHeroes has a book club? We have always received queries from teachers and parents on books we can recommend to empower girls, so we decided to launch our very own book club! Click HERE to view our titles and curated lists. We update them every month!

SheHeroes STEM Career Path Edcuration Podcast

We are delighted to share a video with you that delivers a deep dive exploration of SheHeroes STEM Career Path Curriculum.

Recently SheHeroes was honored to be featured on the award-winning Edcuration podcast hosted by Kristi Hemingway. Edcuration is a curriculum marketplace leader, and their podcasts showcase the best curriculum products available to educators.

Edcuration invited recent participants of the free SheHeroes STEM Career Path Curriculum to discuss their experiences using the curriculum in the classroom. The podcast features:

• Jasonn Denard, middle school principal of College Achieve Paterson, a network of charter schools in Paterson, New Jersey.

• Melissa Mendizabal, middle school science teacher at College Achieve Paterson

• Davianny Delgado Corsino, a 7th grade student at College Achieve Paterson

We encourage you to watch this fascinating discussion, which presents three different perspectives on the SheHeroes curriculum--principal, teacher, and student. The topics explored are:

• What is the STEM Career Path Curriculum?

• Why would a teacher or school use these materials?

• The many different ways to teach or use the curriculum, either as stand-alone units or in combination with other teaching materials and subjects

• What students like best about the curriculum

• What are the benefits of having these enrichment resources?

To watch the program, click on the image above. To learn more about SheHeroes STEM Career Path Curriculum, click HERE.

OUR PARTNERS

Creating relationships and sharing our resources is how we grow as an organization and as a community. If you'd like to share your information or events on our Partners Page, we'd love to hear from you! Do you have a SheHero you believe should be in one of our videos? Let us know! Contact: [email protected]

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Click on the partner names below for more information!
Dignity of Children
Girls Who Code
Techbridge Girls
Millon Women Mentors
National Girls Collaborative Project
Vital Voices
Worldwide Women
Holy Names High School in Oakland
Travis Unified School District
Scientific Adventures for Girls
Mathaction

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