Summer 2025 Action Plans

See the full 2025 Girls Talk Back report.

In our sixth year of Girls Talk Back, we served 13 young women, ranging from ages 14-18. These young women all joined us from Hawaiʻi public schools.

Under the guidance and facilitation of our staff, participants learned a variety of peacebuilding, leadership, and self-empowerment skills and tools. They also explored feminism, their identities, their roles as women, and how they can lead their generation. The development of these skills and tools culminated in each participant designing and launching youth-led action plans to tackle community issues that matter to them.

With the support of two teachers, 16 guest speakers, and four community mentors with varied areas of skills and expertise, our participants launched action plans, which they pitched to a public audience at a program-ending community forum.