Changemakers Summit 2022
Girls Ignited's mission is to empower, inspire, & encourage girls and young women via nominated changemaker features.
A group of these trailblazers has agreed to share their stories and best practices to inspire other girls and young women who are pursuing businesses or passion projects.
Changemakers Summit 2022 is a free virtual fireside chat and Q&A with founders, entrepreneurs, activists, or in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field and 25 years old or younger. They live in Cyprus, Florida, Africa, New York, New Hampshire, and two in Washington State – including Girls Ignited's 17-year old founder Merrill Keating, a Bainbridge Islander and sophomore at the University of Washington. In addition to Ms. Keating, panelists include: -Sophie Beren, CEO of The Conversationalist, a go-to destination for Gen Z covered by Entrepreneur, Dazed, Huffington Post, Forbes, Elite Daily, and more. -Eleni Charitonos, The world’s first Cypriot analog astronaut, founder of Glasgow University Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Royal Astronomical Society UK fellow, and participant in a LunAres mission in Poland and a 33-day mission at the Hawai‘i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (home to five successful long-duration NASA Mars simulation missions). -Rosalie Fish, a Cowlitz Tribe member, UW track & field runner, and activist who made international headlines when she painted a red handprint over her mouth, the fingers extending across her cheeks to honor the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). -Caeley Looney, Founder/CEO of Reinvented Magazine – the nation’s first print magazine by and for girls and women in STEM, an aerospace engineer, maker, and mental health advocate. -Ellyanne Wanjiku, Africa's youngest climate change ambassador and founder of Children With Nature, a nonprofit that partners with 80 public schools to produce fruit for food-insecure students and generate income through the sale of seedlings. Her efforts have led to the planting of 1.3 million trees in Kenya. -Parmis Mokhtari-Dizaji, the summit’s panel moderator, Youth Leadership Board president for Code Your Chances, and a sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy. Sponsors and Partners include Professional Options, West Sound Technology Association, Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest (OR), Code Your Chances (IL), and Whatever It Takes (CA).
Registration is open to all audiences at https://bit.ly/changemakersGI, where additional information can be found.