Value Girls: The Teen Voices Legacy Project

We’re amplifying the Teen Voices legacy, and we need your help!

Teen Voices (1988-2012) was a trailblazing journalism, mentoring, and youth leadership nonprofit that produced an internationally distributed magazine written entirely by and for teen girls. The organization played a transformative role in the lives of hundreds of teen girls in Boston and thousands of teen readers and writers around the world.   

 We are a group of former Teen Voices staff, teen leaders, board, and advisory board members who have recently come together to create The Teen Voices Legacy Project, a new project of Our Bodies Ourselves (also known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective).   Our goal is to preserve and celebrate the history, legacy, and impact of Teen Voices. 

 We are reaching out to you because you believe in the power of girls to change the world!

The Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute has generously offered to help us. Schlesinger will apply its cutting-edge expertise and technology to preserve and steward the Teen Voices digital and print files, ensuring they will be available among its renewed collection of feminist materials to scholars and the general public for generations to come.

At the same time, we are launching an oral history project to capture the voices of the many girls who wrote articles, shared personal stories, and participated in Teen Voices programs. We will also record stories from former staff and others to document  the long-term impact of Teen Voices. These materials  will also be housed at the Schlesinger Library.

Please help us preserve the Teen Voices story by supporting The Teen Voices Legacy Project!
It’s a big project that requires short-term support.

 Your one-time donation will primarily cover consultant support and modest honorariums to a few former staff and teen leaders who will:
• upload and send digital and print files to the library (Schlesinger is donating their time and staff support);
• reach out to former teen editors, peer leaders, staff, funders, media outlets and board to gather their files and photos;
• collect video and written reflections (i.e., oral histories) from former teens, staff, board and advisory board members, and funders;
• interview key voices from Teen Voices’ past to create a narrative spanning the organization’s 20+ year history that highlights the intergenerational and intersectional work among girls and women across race, gender, class, and sexual orientation.

Help us honor the voices of thousands of girls and women and allow future generations to learn from Teen Voices’ rich experience.

Because The Teen Voices Legacy Project  is a project of Our Bodies Ourselves, also known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, your donation is tax deductible as allowed by law.

MORE ABOUT TEEN VOICES
Teen Voices, formerly Women Express, was a collective created by visionary co-founders Alison Amoroso and Christine Diamond and dedicated volunteers, who shared a belief in the power of girls to create social change. The organization grew through committed boards, volunteer, staff, teen leaders and Executive Director Jenny Amory's leadership to reach hundreds of girls in Boston, 45,000 readers in all 50 states and more than 177 countries. Director of Transformational Leadership Saun Green expanded the unique Boston-based after school and summer program. One of her many projects included a partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media, which challenged Hollywood producers and executives to create a more accurate and positive portrayal of girls in the media.

Thanks to the champions of Teen Voices for your support!  

Jenny Amory and Saun Green
Co-founders
Judy Norsigian
Board Chair, Our Bodies Ourselves
Katie Bayerl
Lead Consultant 

As of March 8, 2022

23 DONORS OF DIGITAL AND PRINT FILES INCLUDING VIDEOS AND ORAL/WRITTEN INTERVIEWS  -
THANK YOU! 

Alison Amoroso (through Duke Univ. Library), Jenny Amory, Yasmin Bailey, Katie Bayerl, Laini Cassis, Lynn Celestin, Celina de Leon, Agostinha Depina, Christine Diamond, Saun Green, Hestia Fund, Diana Korzenik, Anita Lauricella, Tekeisha Meade, Judy Norsigian (through OBOS at Schlesinger), Katina Paron, Ki Perry, Ellyn Ruthstrom, Paige Carruthers Smith, Adanma Ude, Toya Walker, Katie Wheeler, Tanasia White

52 DONORS OF $  - THANK YOU!

Jenny Amory, Anonymous (3), Joan Amory, Elaine and Tim Amory, Katie Bayerl, Malissa Balgobin, Susan Bragg, Jerry Carson and Marybeth Toomey, Sarah Cassell, Marion Cunningham, Kelly Cutler, Nick DeFriez and Sudie Marcuse, Sherring Dartiguenave, Christine Diamond, Barbara Estabrook, Ashley Ginnarte, Sumru Erkut, Tracy Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Grossman, Dorothy Hatzikonstantis, Leslie Heffron, Kimberly LaBonte Kay, Susan Kenyon and Pete Amory, Lauren Ketchum, Diana Korzenik, Aparna Kumar, Kathy Le (on behalf of Ashley Hernandez), Celina De Leon, Jennifer Lemire, Crissa Morton, Jillian Choan Martin, Rosette Martinez, Judy Norsigian, Katina Paron,  Nina Prikazsky, Jane Pincus, Alice Poltorick, Devon Powers, Vidya Rao, Dorothy Richardson, Eshe Sherley, Gail Shulman, John Travis, Ann Wallace, Chiara Wegener, Gail Zacharis  

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