We’re on a mission to help girls discover what lights them up so they can show up with intention and confidence online and off.
Why girls?
Adolescence is hard for every teenager, but research tells us it hits girls differently. Girls are twice as likely as boys to experience a mental health disorder, and by the time they turn 14, most have already reached their lowest levels of self-confidence.
Girls aren't the risk during adolescence, adolescence itself is the risk, and most girls are facing it without enough support.
Her Story is our commitment to changing that.
Agency over Algorithms.
Social media wasn't designed to make girls feel good — it was designed to keep them scrolling. And somewhere between the comparing and the curating, it started working against them.
With girls spending nearly twice the amount of time on social media linked to serious mental health harm, we cannot support girls' mental wellness without addressing how they're showing up online.
Her Story exists to do both.
We lead with intentional social media use.
Social media doesn’t have to create harm. With mindfulness and mentorship it can become a place for self-discovery.
It begins with creating spaces
where girls become more intentional about what they let in and more confident about what they filter out.
We give girls tools, not lectures.
Telling girls to use their phones less hasn’t worked. Her Story uses evidence-based strategies to help girls show up online with more agency and authenticity.
Meeting girls where they are — literally.
Her Story goes directly into the communities girls are already a part of: their sport teams, dance studios, and after school and community based programs.
The messenger always matters.
We train older teens to lead Her Story programming for younger girls. Mentors lead with their lived experience, an effective model that delivers a message girls can hear.