While women have made gains in STEM career fields, persistent gaps remain. The U.S. continues to fall short in empowering young women to lead the way, especially those who are marginalized. Until now.

#GirlsLeadSTEM will celebrate the girls who lead their STEM journeys and empower them to raise their voices to inspire each other and share what’s still needed to close gaps in STEM equity.

Girlstart's mission is to increase girls' interest and engagement in STEM through innovative, nationally-recognized informal STEM education programs.

Girlstart aspires to be the national leader in designing and implementing innovative, high quality informal STEM education programs that inspire girls to transform our world.

GirlsWhoSTEAM Inc. is a non profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in science technology, engineering, and mathematics. We plan to do this by showing girls how STEM could be fun! Our events teach girls leadership, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, and STEM. We also offer a training program for students to start a Girls Who STEAM chapters so that they would be able to become leaders in their communities.

Gitanjali Rao is 14 years old and is a 10th grader at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, CO. She is researching at the University of Colorado, Denver in the Department of Cell Biology to find a solution for prescription opioid addiction using the latest in genetic engineering and created a colorimetry based app and device. This initiative received a world finalist's recognition in a Technovation Girl Challenge and a Health Pillar award by TCS Ignite Innovation challenge nationally. She introduced the device in TEDtalksNayibaat India.

Gitanjali recently launched an anti-cyberbullying service based on AI/Machine Learning using Natural Language Processing in the community called "KINDLY" under Microsoft's guidance. She was awarded the eCYBERMISSION STEM in Action grant to implement the solution.

She is an active STEM promoter and is involved in promoting STEM-based activities in schools, clubs, and the community. She was selected as the National STEM Scout of the Year. She conducts innovation sessions weekly and has impacted more than 28,000 elementary, middle, and high school students by globally sharing her process and tools.

She was recognized as a 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 for science and the lead detection tool's invention. She is also an EPA Presidential award winner and is recognized as a Gloria Barron' Young Hero' Honoree for community impact.

I’m Diya Khanna (she/her). I have worked with companies around the world and am 100% committed to creating diverse, equitable, inclusive workplaces for everyone. A lack of DEI hurts people, innovation, society and is costing us trillions of dollars. I am here to solve these problems through a strategic lens.

The Global Youth Economics Forum, originally International Economics, was founded by Lina Lin in August 2020. She created this program to bring more awareness to the fields of economics, business and finance. The board arranges biweekly events to connect students with professionals in business, banking, finance, consulting, and related fields. The GYEF also arranges monthly opportunities for career development through career spotlight workshops that feature professionals from fields that are not limited to business, finance, and economics. This club is multi-faceted in establishing students networking and interview skills whilst jumpstarting student's professional lives and hosting free college admissions webinars.

Gold House is the premier nonprofit collective of Asian founders, creative voices, and leaders dedicated to unifying the world's largest populace–Asians–to enable more authentic multicultural representation and societal equity.

The collective's members include C-Suite/Partner/President-level executives, A-List creatives, Olympic-level athletes, and successfully-exited founders. Its ventures include a slate of efforts to forge deeper bonds including networking Salons that unlock new professional opportunities; investment vehicles that enable authentic representation like #GoldOpen and content financing; promotional systems that systematically support Asian founders like Gold Rush; a network of caregivers to elongate longevity; and celebratory efforts like the A100 List that honors historic Asian achievements.

In contrast to every major successful diaspora, Asians lack a cohesive culture of mutual support. Our fifty ethnicities, hundreds of dialects, and distributed density across the globe have only extended this fracture. And yet, we've witnessed the positive cultural impact when communities rally to support their own: from the invention of new creative institutions like Hip Hop and R&B or leading an entire industry in commerce. To accelerate our people's professional and cultural legacy, we've built an exclusive collective of the most influential pan-Asian founders, creative voices, and leaders dedicated to erecting infrastructural opportunities for ourselves, future generations, and society, at large. We achieve our mission through three ventures: Convening the brightest minds to identify forward-looking solutions to today's challenges; Creating opportunities for ourselves and society, at large; and Championing excellence in the community.

The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy is a trailblazing coding bootcamp for women and non-binary coders.

The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy strives to empower its students to achieve tech industry success while also redefining it. Learn the skills to qualify as a professional web developer in 19 weeks with our fully online, gender-allied, and career-focused web development bootcamp.

HER is increasing menstrual hygiene accessibility for women.

HER advances Health, Menstrual Equity, and Respect for all.

Through fundraising, distribution, partnerships, and advocacy, we provide period products, hygiene education, healthcare, and sustainable employment for women and girls worldwide.

HER strives to provide affordable, safe, and sustainable menstrual supplies for women and girls to help them manage their periods with dignity.

HER organizes gender-inclusive period workshops and distributes informative booklets on puberty, menstruation, and body literacy to decrease period shame and stigma.

We’re proudly the leading engineering school for women in the Bay Area with 900+ graduates at tech companies that include Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb. We were founded with the mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career.