BIOGRAPHY:

Tobi Greene is the founder of Girls Empowerment Workshop. She first developed a passion for empowering girls when she was an educator and victim advocate at a rape crisis center. On the birth of her daughter, it became really apparent how important the empowerment of young girls was.

She started her first workshop at Matilija Junior High in 2006. Since then, the program has grown, developed, and was recognized. Their group has raised money for a trip to Malawi, where they taught girls self care and reproductive health care. These girls, in turn have traveled throughout Malawi, teaching what they have learned.

Tobi has incorporated a wildnerness component into the program feeling that "People are at their best when they are in the wilderness and close to nature." Teens that go through the workshop become stronger, more assertive, make informed decisions, and feel worthy enough to do so.