PEARLS for Teen Girls
Tiffany Tardy, EdD is currently serving as President & CEO at PEARLS for Teen Girls. Prior to this role, she worked as Executive Director at MPS Foundation, Managing Director of Program at All-In Milwaukee, Director of the Grace Scholars Program at Mount Mary University, and in various roles at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. Tiffany holds an EdD from Alverno College, an MBA in Management from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, and a Bachelor of Science in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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PEARLS for Teen Girls
PEARLS programs are girls-only, safe-space gatherings that meet once weekly at local schools and youth serving organizations. PEARLS groups serves 20 to 25 girls. PEARLS addresses the interconnected issues of poverty, teen pregnancy, violence, and lack of educational attainment at their very roots, by working with girls during the critical teen years, when personal choices that are made can have lifelong consequences. PEARLS girls build leadership skills and character traits such as personal responsibility, empathy, awareness, leadership, and respect. Through PEARLS’ research-based curriculum and goal setting initiative, girls learn a process for setting, working toward, evaluating and reaching tangible goals. These are all skills essential to success in school, work and life. Additional program elements include ongoing academic support, community field trips, guest speakers, annual College Tour, volunteer Higher Education Coaches and many other unique components.