What’s Your Victory?
DemocraShe is a nonpartisan nonprofit offering FREE online training to female-identifying high school teens in evidence-based resiliency skills, leadership & civic engagement.
We actively recruit future leaders from historically underrepresented communities to flood our future with diverse, compassionate & confident women leaders in every sector - who know running for office is their birthright.
DemocraShe is not only free, we pay our students stipends so we can enable young women to receive mental health tools & leadership training regardless of background or income status.
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Why We Exist
Women are not represented equally in government.
Only 28.7% of Congress are women, though women make up 50.4% of the US,
and only 9.2% are women of color, though they are 20% of the US population.
BUT when women run for office, they win at the same rate as men.
SO… we need more women to run!
Why don’t more women run?
A key reason is recruitment. Studies show men believe they can run, while women have to be recruited. And women, especially women of color, are more likely to be discouraged from running.
Studies also show that high school is the last time boys and girls believe they can run for office equally.
This is where DemocraShe comes in!
To set women leaders up for success, we need public policy leadership skills (to feel confident and prepared), AND social work resiliency skills (to help them say yes to running and handle the pushback they may face when they do.) And we need to start in High School!
And… if she believes she can be a Senator, she believes she can be a CEO.
DemocraShe’s life and leadership skills are transferable to any area where young women want to lead and thrive.
DemocraShe creates a safe, brave, joyful space where young women receive the support and guidance they need to pursue the roles they deserve.
We encourage young women to elevate their voices through self-advocacy, civic engagement and community service, empowering a new generation.
"I would not trade DemocraShe for the world!" —Amanda, age 17
"DemocraShe’s practical and resiliency skills from the workshops help me to thrive and become a person who is more confident - who uses their voice to make change” - Erina, age 15
“As a low-income person of color I’ve learned that channeling all of those systemic inequities can be my drive to create change for other people that might be experiencing similar circumstances to me” - Kaisha, age 16
“I was a little bit more hesitant to be outspoken in circles that I anticipated push-back, but after DemocraShe I found that I have the confidence I need to speak up in those spaces” - Sevi, age 17
“The resiliency skills that I learned will help me in the future in every way. Even if you don't choose to run for office, the skills you learn in DemocraShe will help you in whatever career you have. You're going to need to be confident if you're a woman in the workplace. You're going to need to take chances” - Riya, age 16
Building a Pipeline
We need strategic intentional investment in communities that have typically been left out.
Strategic intention starts with recruitment. While DemocraShe is thrilled to receive applications from female identifying high school students nationwide, it also has recruiting partner commitments from organizations that work with:
Foster students
Unhoused students
Low income students
Students learning Peer Mediation
DemocraShe's mission is to flood America's future with female-identifying leaders and public servants whose perspectives and lived experiences will transform our communities to truly reflect America.
Our Program
DemocraShe offers free online trainings, including a Flagship Program with 10-week cohorts designed to build self-confidence and self-advocacy, cultivate collaboration, nurture ambition and make leadership concrete and accessible.
Critically, we arm teen girls with resiliency skills to become transformational leaders, as well as the strategies needed to counter the external barriers and internal negative narratives that so often prevent women from fulfilling their potential.
“For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman
