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Day Of The Girl

Day Of The Girl

Princess Hyatt October 11, 2022 Girls Circle, Guest Blogger Leave a comment
Last year, around this same time, I was just beginning my journey as a Women’s Leaders of The World fellow - working with my fellow peers, coaches and advisors to launch the newest phase of a high school plan for a program that I hold very close to my heart called Horizons at The Ethel Walker School. In partnership with The Ethel Walker School, we served 150 young girls from the Greater Hartford area from grade PreK to 8th grade, all of who possessed great promise, purpose and true potential.
 
Working with this group for three years gave me hope, inspiration and more importantly drive and fight during my tenure there as Executive Director. In fact, it prepared me to take on this new role at Grace Academy as the Executive Director and Head of School, an all-girls private school dedicated to breaking the cycle of systematic poverty through education, long-term support and community.
 
Through my work, I am lucky and blessed to help enrich and empower girls and young women to pursue their intellectual pursuits with confidence, curiosity, and agency. This is my purpose! This is what I was born to do. Just today at our Circle of Peace, which is a daily community gathering amongst students and staff, I recited the Horizons pledge to remind our scholars that we are all sisters in this: 
 
I promise to lift other girls up, have their backs, and make it safe for them to be exactly who they are. Every time I look in the mirror, I’ll remind myself that I am not alone, that I am beautiful, that my voice matters, and that I am enough.
 
To anyone and everyone, including all of the young women that I have served and will serve, THANK YOU for making a difference in my life! Though that imposter syndrome creeps up every now and then, you all are the remedy that treats me every time! I am enough and so are you! 
 
Next week, we will celebrate all things GIRL and everything that we have accomplished, persevered through, and fought for. It is a day where we uplift girls and women all around us, all over the world, those who are silenced and those who have amplified, past and present, here and now. What a day to celebrate women and girls! I challenge you to make a promise and commitment to continue to make an impact in a girl’s life. 
 
Today, I promise that I will fight for you, I will champion you, I will lift you up!
You are a GIRL and an extraordinary one at that. 
 
Happy International Day of The Girl 2022!
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Princess Hyatt is the newly appointed Executive Director and Head of School at Grace Academy in Hartford, CT. She was recently a part of the Women’s Leaders of The World fellowship and her last position was on the Equity Team at The Ethel Walker School. Princess is a long-time non-profit professional possessing an insatiable drive to achieve and exceed both programmatic and fundraising goals in addition to having strong organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills. She is a champion of girls and makes a large impact in her community. 

“You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman

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