2025 events COMING SOON

The Spark Change Project is a strategic collaboration between the Girls Empowerment Network and the Excellence Project. Each fall and winter, a new cohort of high school-aged girls of color, Peer Facilitators, are recruited, hired, on-boarded, and trained. Together, they discover their activist voices, create a policy agenda, and galvanize their peers to engage in their own passions for positive social change. Once they are trained, they host a number of public events impacting other girls in grades 6-12: Town Halls, issue forums, and an advocacy day at the State Capitol, all themed around activism and change-making, between February and May, with Spark Change Camp held in June as the culminating programmatic element.

Our 2025 cohort of Spark Change Project Peer Facilitators will be recruited and hired from October to December 2024. Stay tuned to our “Join the team” page for more information.

events archive

Check out the coverage of past Spark Change Project events on the Girls Empowerment Network Blog:

• Coverage of the 2021 Town Hall session and reflections and recorded virtual Town Hall.

• Coverage of 2021 policy agenda and testimony at the 87th Texas Legislative session.

• Coverage of Spark Change Day 2021.

• Coverage of 2021 Spark Change Camp.

• Policy Fellow reflections on the 2021 cohort and first year of programming.

• Coverage of the 2022 Town Hall session

• Planning for Spark Change Day 2022

• Coverage of Spark Change Day 2022

• Planning for Spark Change Day 2023

• Coverage of Spark Change Day 2023