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Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that seeks to bridge the gender gap and end gender bias in STEAM, leadership, and business.

GLAM empowers girls and young women to believe in themselves, dream big, and pursue their goals!

06/03/2026

She grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad, looking up at the sky and wondering what was out there. At 17, she moved to the United States with a dream. Today, she has spent nearly three decades helping build the rockets and space systems that take humans to the stars. 🚀💗

Meet Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne! Rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space ambassador, and the first Caribbean American woman to hold a senior post at NASA.

Dr. Alleyne spent 26 years at NASA advancing human spaceflight, space vehicle systems engineering, and space research, becoming one of the few women of color in senior leadership at the agency and the first African American to lead a major human spaceflight program at NASA Johnson Space Center. She played a pivotal role in the commercialization of space and has served as a Space and Science Public Diplomat for the U.S. State Department.

She attributes part of her growth to attending an all-girls secondary school in Trinidad, saying: "That type of environment as a girl really allows you to just know that you could be anything."

In 2007, she founded The Brightest Stars Foundation, dedicated to educating, empowering, and inspiring young women to be future leaders through science, math, and technology. She did not just reach the stars. She built a foundation to help every girl who comes after her do the same. 💗

06/01/2026

How many Caribbean women in STEAM can you name? 🌺

If the answer is one, two, or none at all, that is exactly why this post exists.

This , GLAM is spotlighting 4 women from the Caribbean whose contributions to science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics have changed lives and shaped industries across the world. Their work is extraordinary. Their names deserve to be known.

Swipe to meet them. And then go tell people about them. 💗

05/29/2026

As May draws to a close, GLAM wants to leave you with something to carry forward. 🌸🧠💗

This month, we honored AAPI women who have shaped STEAM and whose names deserve to be better known. We celebrated extraordinary people doing extraordinary work in the world.

And now we are asking you a question: what would change if every girl grew up knowing she belonged in science, in technology, in engineering, in art, in mathematics?

The answer to that question is the entire reason GLAM exists. 💗

And the answer is what we are building in California in just a few weeks. We will see you there. 🎀

05/27/2026

4 weeks from today, GLAM takes over San Jose, California. 🎀🚀

Two days. Girls ages 8 to 12. Young women mentors. Adult volunteers. And the kind of energy that only happens when a room full of people believe that every girl belongs in STEAM and in leadership.

GLAM June 2026 is happening on June 23 - 24 in California, presented in partnership with Cisco and itD.

We are still looking for attendees, mentors, and volunteers who want to be part of this wonderful opportunity. We would love to have you. 💗

📍 California | 📅 June 23 and 24, 2026

If you are interested, check out the link in the comments 👇

05/26/2026

Yesterday, we paused to honor the brave men and women who gave everything in service of this country. 🇺🇸💗

At GLAM, we take a moment to reflect on the women among them. The female service members, scientists, engineers, doctors, and leaders who served with courage and dedication, many of whom never received the recognition they deserved.

Their sacrifice reminds us why we do this work. Every girl we empower, every young woman we inspire to lead; that is a future worth protecting and building. 💗

To all who served, and to every family holding their memory close: thank you. 🙏🏽

05/20/2026

She grew up in the Philippines reading about NASA in old history books, never imagining it had anything to do with her. Today she leads the people who make sure humans get safely to space. 🚀💗

Meet Josephine Santiago-Bond! Filipina American systems engineer, Commercial Crew Office Chief for Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where she manages a multi-center workforce responsible for ensuring crew and vehicle safety for human spaceflight missions. Her leadership has contributed to NASA's SpaceX Crew missions and the Boeing Crew Flight Test.

She did not have a straight path. Math did not come easily, and she had sleepless nights crawling through coursework. Through her dedication, she received a graduate internship in South Dakota that changed everything. She has been building at NASA ever since.

She is a sought-after speaker driven by a personal mission to inspire girls to pursue STEAM and broaden minority representation across NASA.

Her message: "It's very important for women to lift each other up. It's important for women to break new ground and pave the way."

That message is exactly what we are bringing to California this June, a room full of women lifting the next generation up. 🎀

05/18/2026

"You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle." 💗

These words belong to Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist, leading authority on bipolar disorder, and a woman who chose to speak openly about her own mental health at a time when no one in academic medicine did.

We believe the same truth applies to every girl navigating STEAM while also navigating herself. Mental health is not separate from the conversation about girls in science and technology. It is at the center of it.

Girls who are told from a young age that they do not belong do not just lose confidence in the classroom. They carry that weight with them and they deserve to know that it is okay to struggle, it is okay to ask for help, and it is okay to take up space while still figuring it all out. Strength is not the absence of vulnerability. 💪🏽

05/15/2026

This week's is someone whose work reaches every classroom, every teacher, and every student in every corner of the world. 🌍💗

Meet Kimberly Lane Clark! Global Manager for Community and Educator Advocacy at Google for Education Global Impact, where she manages all Google for Education Champions, Global Educator Groups, and Reference Schools globally, advocating for educational programming and technology implementation at scale. In other words, she is helping shape how millions of students learn. 💡

What Kimberly loves most? Working with school districts and teachers to make a real difference through educational technology. And outside of work, she channels that same passion into cooking, traveling for culinary experiences, and personally advocating for addressing the inequities that underrepresented girls face in STEM every single day. 💪🏽

She lives to this advice: "Be your true self and speak your truth. Even if it means you are the only one doing it."

That is a GLAM superpower if we have ever heard one. ✨ And speaking of superpowers, we are building a room full of them in San Jose, California this June. Have you heard the news? 🎀

05/13/2026

and matters. 🌸✨

This AAPI Heritage Month, we are celebrating 4 extraordinary women whose contributions to STEAM have saved lives, opened doors, and reshaped what is possible. From mapping HIV's genes to searching for life on other planets to inventing tools that protect drinking water, their work is everywhere, even when their names are not.

Get to know their story! And then go tell a girl about them. 💗

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