Girls Inc.

Because once you allow it in, yeah, you could, you could, like teenagers are the hardest group.

I was doing work with Girls Inc.

And they asked me to come and do a laughter session.

So I was like, oh, this will be so fun.

And I'm Renee.

And today we have Leah Rosenauer, CEO at Girls Inc.

Yes.

I'm so glad to be here.

I can talk about Girl Thing.

All day, every day.

Girls Inc. of San Antonio is a nonprofit organization, and we inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

If anyone has ever seen me talk out there, I ask the whole audience to say it with me.

questions in life.

At about the same time, shortly after that, I joined an organization called Girls Inc., which used to be the Girls Clubs of America.

What drew me to the organization was a very special, I think, approach to young people and what it means to support young people in developing as themselves with specifically the lens of gender socialization and that how it affects our own sense of who we are.

So those those two things came together for me and in part because people kept asking us, well, is there a program for boys that's like Girls Inc.? And there really wasn't anything like that.

And to a large extent, there still isn't anything like that.

And I said, I'm going to create a program like that.

Yes.

So I sat on the board of Girls Inc.

I also have written a book on girls and self-esteem.

And then I was at Access Hollywood for 16 years.

Haley spearheaded a nationwide family planning policy at Northwestern Mutual.

She now partners with organizations including Girls Inc., the NAACP, and GLSEN, donating with every new client engagement.

She has been recognized as a 2024 Woman of Influence in Finance by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

and a 2024 DEIA visionary by the Los Angeles Times.

But honestly, the story that I tell people that it was kind of truthfully a massive shock is that the vehicle that I took with me to graduate school, because I actually moved at that time to be in Indiana, I did not have a rear defrost on my car.

You can buy them without them, right? So it was the most incredible educational experience and got to intern at Girls Inc., which is an amazing organization working with young women, and then also got to work at Family Foundations.

managing and looking at a portfolio of serving arts organizations and really looking at Indianapolis is actually a major location for philanthropic organizations to be headquartered.

So it's a really incredible experience.

It goes to Cooking with Kids.

It goes to Girls Inc.

It goes to Boys and Girls Fluffs.

And so it helps fund all these programs for disadvantaged youth in our community.