Girls For A Change Niko Clifford Fellowship Awarded 2003  Niko Clifford started her work with young urban women as a manager at Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County. Niko co-founded the Silicon Valley Girls Coalition and was one of the authors of the "Women and Girls 2000 & Beyond: Strategies for Success" report published in 2001 by the Office of Women's Advocacy. With several years of experience in media relations, Niko has directed marketing campaigns for organizations such as Nokia. In January 1999, she co-founded Young Women Social Entrepreneurs, a Bay Area organization that promotes women with socially conscious agendas to reach high positions of leadership in business, government, and not-for-profit work. She has spoken about social entrepreneurship at The Haas Business School, The Simmons School of Management and The National Women's Leadership Coalition. Currently Girls For A Change serves urban girls in the San Francisco Bay Area and plans for national expansion in 2005. www.girlsforachange.org. |
