Calling all girls and gender-expansive youth across the Bay Area, organizations that serve them, as well as advocates of transit equity to this event.

Meet our new Co-Executive Director, Linda Lu!

Her work is on the cutting edge of feminist and decolonized research focusing on intergenerational communities and youth of color. We couldn’t be more excited to have her join the AFG team! 

Meet our new Co-Executive Director, Chantal Hildebrand. Advancing gender equity and justice internationally and here in California has been her life’s work. Chantal joined AFG nearly three years ago as Director of Programs. The following year, she was promoted as AFG’s Deputy Director.

AFG has seen a lot of big changes in the last year. Tune in to our latest blog post for a recap of what 2023 brought AFG.

A few weeks ago, we shared that after much consideration and staff and board discussions, AFG was moving into a Co-Executive Director model. Today, we are excited to announce that Chantal Hildebrand and Linda Lu will serve as our inaugural Co-Executive Directors!

Over the last month, Alliance for Girls (AFG) has celebrated some exciting legislation wins, and below are some updates from our data-driven state policy advocacy efforts. In each of these pieces of legislation, our girl-centered research was uplifted to highlight the need for both of these bills.

Today, AFG is proud to release Hear Their Voices: The Experiences of Girls* & Gender-Expansive Youth in South and Southeast Los Angeles. This brief summarizes the findings of our research to date in LA County. It highlights our most recent community asset mapping report and accompanying heat map of the programs, services, and resources available to girls and gender-expansive youth in South and Southeast Los Angeles, specifically Service Planning Areas (SPAs) 6 and 7.

Earlier this year, Senator Dave Min and the Stop AAPI Hate coalition introduced SB 434, Public Transit for All: Improving Safety & Increasing Ridership. The bill would require California’s top ten public transit systems to collect qualitative and quantitative data about rider experiences with harassment and is awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature.

After much consideration and staff and board discussions, AFG will move into a Co-Executive Director model. In the coming weeks, we will announce our new Co-Executive Directors – two people who will lead AFG together.

Learn more.

Read our Founding Executive Director, Emma Mayerson’s Thank You Note to the AFG Community.

Today, we are proud to release Safety in Numbers: How the Not One More Girl Initiative Addresses Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence, a case study that captures our journey, impact and learning of this first phase.

Learn more.

Read our latest AFG Membership Newsletter to learn what we’ve been up to!

We’re thrilled to announce the new and improved AFG Girls* Resource Hub! Formerly the Girls Service Directory, the AFG Girls Resource Hub is an interactive, online directory of organizations that provide programming and/or services for girls and gender-expansive youth across California, with particular focus on the Bay Area and Los Angeles County.

We are excited to share that our Los Angeles Kick-Off Event hosted last month was a SUCCESS! THANK YOU to all the community leaders and youth who participated in creating a bold vision for girls and gender-expansive youth in LA County.

TikTok is the latest social media platform to draw political scrutiny — as well as more nuanced takes from Gen Zers who find connection and distress online.

WE DID IT! Thank you to everyone who came out last week to #IGNITEtheCapitol2023, and thank you to our partner/co-host IGNITE!