Y-WE Leadership Transition

This August we are experiencing a transition in Y-WE’s leadership team. Learn more in this letter from Y-WE’s Board Chair.


This August we are experiencing a transition in Y-WE’s leadership team. Learn more in this letter from Y-WE’s Board Chair.

Y-WE’s Co-Founder, Rose Waterstone, is stepping down as Co-Executive Director this summer. Learn more in their departing letter.

With Spring starting this weekend, there will be flowers blooming everywhere. A similar thing is happening with our youth at Y-WE. After being in our programs for Fall and Winter, …

For the past six years, Y-WE has partnered with researchers at foundry10 to explore the impact of Y-WE programs. As an education research organization, foundry10 uses a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how Y-WE programs make such a transformative impact on the diverse young women* they serve.

One of Y-WE’s newest staff members, Shaena Spoor, shares about her vision for her work at Y-WE and her upcoming event, Day of Wellness.

Nearly two years into a destabilizing global pandemic characterized by increased isolation, lack of face to face contact, and a rapid disruption to “normal life” as we knew it, we …