PowHERful™

What we learn from our core scholars we bring to a broader audience through our PowHERful™ Summit. It is a full day of empowerment with an emphasis on educational, professional, and personal development for high school juniors and seniors and college-aged participants. We feature industry experts who present curriculum in areas like digital and financial literacy, STEM, workforce development, college preparedness, health and wellness and more. Morning and afternoon keynotes by inspiring leaders are a highlight.

What started as a half-day session for our scholars has grown into an annual, daylong event in New York City for young women in the community. The 2014 PowHERful™ Summit had 150 amazing participants — in 2015 we not only returned to New York with more attendees, but brought the Summit to New Orleans, too. In 2016? We’re expanding even further.

SCOPE

• Participant numbers range from 200 to 500 young women depending on location.
• Like our core scholars, most of the young women attending our events are minorities from low income families, the first in their families to go to college.
• Keynote speakers have a sit-down interview with Starfish Foundation founder Soledad O’Brien.
• The event consists of four or five hour-long sessions — the content of these sessions combine a number of related topics into multiple concise, interactive presentations.
• By the end of the day attendees will be inspired and motivated to take additional steps towards the realization of their goals.
• Following the event, participants are kept connected with the Foundation through follow-up surveys and other digital platforms.

UPCOMING SUMMITS

PowHERful™ Twin Cities: October 29th, 2016 at St. Catherine University

PowHERful™ Los Angeles: December 10th, 2016, presented in partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation

PAST SUMMITS

PowHERful™ Cleveland: September 24th, 2016 at Case Western Reserve University

PowHERful™ New York: July 23rd, 2016 at Google

Starfish scholars and PowHERful™ NYC keynote Dascha Polanco

PowHERful™ Birmingham: May 7th, 2016 at the Sheraton Birmingham

Soledad O’Brien with some of the Birmingham panelists

PowHERful™ New Orleans: April 9th, 2016 at the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market

Taylor Triplett opens the New Orleans Summit with a spoken word performance

PowHERful™ Tampa: February 20th, 2016 at the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation

Soledad O’Brien with Tampa attendees

PowHERful™ New York City: Saturday, July 18th, 2015, Google New York

You can watch a recording of the entire Summit here.

Soledad O’Brien with Starfish scholars at Google

PowHERful™ New Orleans: Saturday, April 25th, 2015, Dillard University

Sheba Turk (center, in yellow) with New Orleans Summit attendees

 

PowHERful™ New York: Saturday, July 19th, 2014, Credit Suisse

PowHERful™ New York: Saturday, July 20th, 2013, Credit Suisse

Soledad and the scholars

Iyanla Vanzant

Macy’s/Fashion Fair

Thank you to our PowHERful™ sponsors:

Casey Family Programs
Coca Cola Beverages Florida
Google
New York Women’s Foundation
ECMC
NYC Health + Hospitals
MetroPlus
Target
Macy’s
Credit Suisse
American Family Insurance
Capital One
Prudential
Chevron
The Meraux Foundation
Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Lyft

For more information on the Summit, please email PowHERful@starfishscholars.org