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For 161 years, Girls Inc. has been helping break down barriers to empower young women.
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For 161 years, Girls Inc. has been helping break down barriers to empower young women.

  • Katie Rodriguez
  • Nov 20, 2025

Girls Inc., a nonprofit that works to empower 130,000 girls nationwide (and in Canada) began 161 years ago in Waterbury, Connecticut. Original…

A local dance troupe seeks to add more diversity to burlesque – both in the performers and the audience.
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A local dance troupe seeks to add more diversity to burlesque – both in the performers and the audience.

  • Sloan Campi
  • May 1, 2025

Friday night, April 25 may as well have been a Saturday because the Carmel Delights burlesque troupe recreated sexy versions of iconic Saturda…

Recollections of meeting a powerful pope who listened to the stories of regular people.
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Recollections of meeting a powerful pope who listened to the stories of regular people.

  • Maria Elena Manzo
  • May 1, 2025

Last August, I had the opportunity to travel to Rome and visit Pope Francis. I joined a delegation of 18 leaders and organizers from across th…

Nonprofit Girls Inc. envisions a generation of women who started shaping their own futures as kids.
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Nonprofit Girls Inc. envisions a generation of women who started shaping their own futures as kids.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Nov 16, 2023

Over 20 years ago, a group of moms wanted to give the next generation tools to empower themselves and succeed, inside and outside the classroo…

For Martha Zepeda Zarate, volunteering has been a full-time lifestyle for many years.
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For Martha Zepeda Zarate, volunteering has been a full-time lifestyle for many years.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Nov 10, 2022

For over a decade, Martha Zepeda Zarate of Soledad has donated her time and effort extensively. She continues to do so, for various organizati…

With her Welding Women Syndicate, Tiffany Orff hopes to bring diversity to the shop.
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With her Welding Women Syndicate, Tiffany Orff hopes to bring diversity to the shop.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Sep 15, 2022

Tiffany Orff is hard to locate. She is usually behind the closed gate leading to what the locals know as “the old Salinas shop” in the industr…

Through books and action, Debra Wilson channels positive change and seeks to empower others.
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Through books and action, Debra Wilson channels positive change and seeks to empower others.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Feb 24, 2022

Debra Wilson has lived in Salinas most of her life. Her parents, both veterans, adopted her when she was 2 months old. They appeared to be a t…

A club promises magic, but delivers something real: empowering Black girls to be proud of who they are and what they can achieve.
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A club promises magic, but delivers something real: empowering Black girls to be proud of who they are and what they can achieve.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Nov 13, 2021

On a sunny Saturday morning, a group of girls and their mentor are enjoying a moment of leisure at Monastery Beach in Carmel. They are laughin…

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  • Jul 7, 2021

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