MINERVA: Preparing High School Women for Empowered Careers

Toxic norms are learned long before women begin their careers. MINERVA will offer preventative infrastructures and sustained, early intervention, pre-workforce programs combining afterschool cohorts, immersive summer institutes, and sponsored internships for high school women. Built around Interpersonal Skills and Algorithmic Awareness, the program will equip participants with skills to recognize bias, resist digital pressures, challenge inequitable, patriarchal norms, and navigate power in ways that build healthier identities and workplace cultures in and through their communities.