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For the new Special K® Nourish cereal we created and launched the "Nourish Your Next" project to help recognize and celebrate the get-after-it, bring-it-on, ready-for-what's-next women and nourish what they have their sights set on next. Partnering with both Tracee Ellis Ross who with her fame helped push out the message and photographer Kate T. Parker, best known for her work “Strong is the New Pretty” which features and celebrates girls being themselves, she set out to photograph and champion "Nourish Your Next" Recipients, leading to an official gallery showing kickoff.
Special K "Nourish Your Next" Recipients:
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Parker's personal nominee, Erin Regan is a firefighter and paramedic in Los Angeles County – one of 38 uniformed women in the department of nearly 4,000. As such, she has helped start and lead both the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Girl's Fire Camp and Women's Fire Prep Academy. She is also a former college (Wake Forest) and professional (WUSA Washington Freedom) soccer player, and current hockey player, traveling the world for tournaments. Special K will be providing support to help Regan continue to inspire and prepare women and girls with an interest in firefighting through Los Angeles County Fire Department programming.Description text goes here
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After working in the biotech and pharma industries for more than 20 years, Kimberly Bryantfounded Black Girls CODE in 2011 to change the face of technology by introducing girls from underrepresented communities to coding through a series of workshops, hackathons and summer camps. The nonprofit organization brings together girls 7-17 for after-school and weekend coding workshops, to learn how to build websites, create mobile apps and build robotics. As the name implies, Black Girls CODE is aimed at young women of color, but everyone is welcomed. Special K will be providing support to help Bryant increase the footprint of Black Girls CODE and its workshops.
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At just 20 years old, Maria Rose Belding is the co-founder and executive director of the MEANS Database, an interactive site that's helping reduce food waste and feed the hungry by connecting thousands of food pantries, soup kitchens, and other nonprofit groups with donors giving away excess food. The database is now in use in 44 states and counting. Belding was named the 2015 Clinton Hunger Leadership Award winner and is the author of more than a dozen nationally published articles on hunger policy. Her first major piece was published when she was 15. Special K will be providing support to help Belding bring MEANS to more states, furthering her mission to reduce food waste.
