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It takes more than a rainstorm to stop a Girls Inc. red carpet Girls rule
event. This year’s theme, “With You in Her Corner, She Will
Soar,” drew a record crowd to the Spirit of Girls Breakfast at
the Log Cabin on April 4.

The girls, dressed in the organization’s new hip black and Cynthia grew up strong, smart, and bold, and
red tee shirts, greeted the guests and took countless selfies attended Georgetown University and Harvard
with them. Then the inspiring program began. The Magic of University. Today she is a proud mom of two boys,
Eureka! Provost Katherine Newman from UMass Amherst and the top executive recruiter and talent strategist
at Nielsen in New York City.
41described some of the fascinating Eureka! STEM projects
Cynthia left the girls with her parting message:
girls are involved in on campus and in the labs. She then “When you get to where you want to be, reach back
and bring someone forward with you. If we all did
56 presented a video created by the university to showcase the this, just think how much better the world would be.”
program. The applause was deafening.

Suzanne Parker, Executive Director of Girls Inc., brought it To check out their future, the supporters got out their
all together for the guests with more about the Girls Inc. checkbooks, at the request of the day’s last dynamic
experience.The morning’s highlight came when Girls Inc. speaker, Dr. Carol Leary, President of Bay Path
alumna Cynthia Medina Carson came to the podium. Her University. Dr. Leary was a Girls Inc. girl herself, and
story transfixed her listeners. was thrilled to help Girls Inc. raise nearly $150,000 to
make sure girls can soar!
“I came to Girls Inc. in the 80’s, when I was just five years

old. I was from a large Puerto Rican family. By the time I

was six I had lived in at least seven places right here in

Holyoke, so it was life-changing to go to the Girls Club

building where everything smelled new and the floors were

shiny. It was hard to imagine that people would make a

building that beautiful just for us. I had a real place to be 63

loud and intelligent.”