Stephanie Villanueva-Villar is the Founder & Executive director of Your Girl for Good, a D.C. non-profit organization that equips young girls of color with successful female mentors in the STEM, Art, and Political sectors. Since 2017, Stephanie has created summer mentorship programs, workshops, and summits that focus on reminding young girls of their limitless potential by connecting them with a network of supportive professional women and exposing them to an array of career fields, college guidance, and mindfulness practices. Stephanie is passionate about the advancement of communities of color and has collaborated with the Smithsonian, Girls Who Code, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to develop and implement diversity and inclusion programs that uplift the voices of marginalized students. Stephanie is a recent graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University and double majored in International Social Justice and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies with a minor in Political Science. She is a Vital Voices Fellow, Herlead Ambassador, and RockStar Award Grantee. She currently serves on VCU’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advisory board for the Massey Cancer Center. In her free time, Stephanie loves to draw, bake banana bread, and go on long scenic walks with her yorkie, Lucas.

Feel free to connect with Stephanie on LinkedIn or through her organization’s website at https://www.yourgirlforgood.org/.