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Thank You For Joining Us at the 2022 Girls Write Now Agents of Change Awards!

Girls Write Now celebrates 25 years of next gen leaders driving change throughout New York City—and now nationwide—thanks to the generous support of our partners across industries.

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Maya Nussbaum, Ellen Archer, Judith Curr, Wendy Sherman, Chrissy King, Danielle Ponder, Avis Reese and Gati Desai Curtis at the 2022 Agents of Change Awards.
Girls Write Now’s 2022 Anthology, Taking Root, on display at DVF Studios.
Girls Write Now mentee and editorial intern Maya Cruz performs at the 2022 Agents of Change Awards.
Actress, comedian, writer, publisher and Girls Write Now 2018 Honoree, Phoebe Robinson with 2022 Agents of Change Honoree Chrissy King, author of the forthcoming book, The Body Liberation Project (Tiny Reparations Books.)
Singer, producer, songwriter and public defender, Danielle Ponder, performs at the 2022 Agents of Change Awards.
Mentee Maria Ruiz, winner of the Scholastic My Life With… Essay Contest, with 2022 Agents of Change Honoree Rose Else-Mitchell.
Neith Stone, granddaughter of 2022 Agents of Change Honoree Jeff Gural, Chairman GFP Real Estate, New York.
2022 Agents of Change Honoree Lavaille Lavette.
Girls Write Now Board members Gati Desai Curtis, Cate Ambrose, Maya Nussbaum, Mustafa Topiwalla, Judith Curr, Ellen Archer and Lynda Pak.
Singer, producer, and Public Defender Danielle Ponder joins Phoebe Robinson and keyboardist Avis Reese for a photo.
Girls Write Now’s Editors-in-Residence Morayo Faleyimu and Kathryn Destin.
In partnership with Dutton, the Girls Write Now annual anthology series from the past five years.
Madeline McIntosh, CEO of Penguin Random House and 2021 Agent of Change Honoree, at the 2022 Agents of Change Awards.
Girls Write Now mentees and honorees. From left to right: mentee Maya Cruz, honoree Jeff Gural, honoree Chrissy King, honoree Lavaille Lavette, mentee Tuhfa Begum, presenter Phoebe Robinson, presenter Kathryn Destin, board member Joy Altimare, mentee Natalia Vargas-Caba, mentee Maria Ruiz, honoree Rose Else-Mitchell and Executive Director Maya Nussbaum.

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Estée Lauder Companies
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RBC Foundation
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The Upswing Fund
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Pinterest

LEADERS | $75K+

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BIC Corporate Foundation
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HarperCollins

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GFP Real Estate

CHAMPIONS | $10K+

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Adobe
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Amazon Literary Partnership
Amazon Literary Partnership
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Dotdash Meredith

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Yen Press

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Alloy Entertainment
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The Feminist Press
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Target Circle Guest-Directed Giving Program
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