“Once the conversation has started, it goes past this conference,” said DanThuy T. Chu ’13, a mentor and former participant in the conference.
Event co-organizer Tara D. Venkatraman ’11 said she enjoys observing the empowerment the young women feel.
“To see them owning this conference as their own...that’s really powerful,” she said.
Diedre Degraffenreid, a counselor at the YMCA in Dorchester, brought two girls to the conference and was very pleased with the results.
“I thought it was really good,” she said, “I’ll bring them back. Definitely.”
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—Staff writer Mercer R. Cook can be reached at mcook@college.harvard.edu.