Christen Brandt

Christen believes in a world where every girl gets to decide on her future -- and she works for that future each and every day. She is the Co-founder and Chief Programs Officer at She’s the First (STF), where the organizations teams up with local partners to ensure girls are educated, respected, and heard worldwide.

Christen works and travels globally to promote girls' voices and the development of programs that support them directly, whether through STF's local partnerships, conferences, or trainings, or through consulting for organizations looking to create deeper impact with and for girls. The global challenges girls face have local solutions; Christen finds and maps out those solutions to be able to collaborate on what works for girls, whether they happen to be born in New York, Nairobi, or somewhere in between.

Christen is the co-author of IMPACT, a book to guide individuals on their path to creating sustainable change. Christen is a mentor for the Aerie Changemakers program, sits on the Global Advisory Council for Barbie, and is an impact consultant to organizations as well as brands and individuals. She is keenly interested in matching clients' skills and resources to the world's greatest needs, especially in the arena of gender equality.

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