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Girls Watch Movies: Norma Rae

By Jess Rigel on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 20:01

Jess highlights a decades-old movie that feels newly relevant.

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If You Can't Be in the Place You Love, Honey...

By Bella Herold on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:23

High School senior Bella Herold writes about leaving the bubble - her semester away and her session at GLI summer camp - and falling painfully back to reality.

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The Curse of the Good College Girl

By Lauren Herold on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 08:34

Lauren takes a good, hard look at why she and so many of her friends are maxed out.

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Say It Like You Mean It

By Julia Carlin on Sun, 09/12/2010 - 10:47

GLI-er and high school freshman Julia Carlin practices assertiveness when asking for cheese, among other things. This is the second article in her series about applying leadership tools to real life.

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Standing Tall

By Julia Carlin on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:22

GLI camper and high school freshman Julia Carlin challenges herself to go from pretzeling her limbs to walking with confidence, and lives to tell the tale. This is the first article in a series by Julia about applying leadership tools to real life.

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On Being Real

By Jahleese Ladson on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 13:43

Jahleese finds that being real often means rejecting others' expectations of you, no matter what those expectations are.

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Leading Like A Girl

By Shelby Knox on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:28

A few weekends ago, an international group of (mostly) women gathered at the Omega Institute in upstate New York for the annual Women and Power conference to discuss and practice the year’s theme of “Connecting Across the Generations.”

And as luck would have it, GLI was well represented by an intergenerational delegation consisting of Rachel Simmons, Lilly, a seventeen year-old high school senior who attended camp the summer before her freshman year, and me.

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