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Curator > Girl Power: Picture Us Powerful!
Serena designed GIRL POWER: Picture Us Powerful! to increase self-esteem and self-competency among adolescent girls. GIRLPOWER used photography as a catalyst for discussing interpersonal and social issues identified by girls. Each week throughout the program participants took home cameras to photograph specific issues in their lives. Weekly group meetings were spent discussing social issues such as friends, family, body image and dreams of the future.
Serena implemented the first GIRL POWER: Picture Us Powerful! program during the spring of 2001 at the Nolan State Fair Neighborhood Health Empowerment Center (NHEC) in Detroit, Michigan. Fourteen 9-14 year old girls completed the program which culminated in a traveling photo exhibit.
During the summer of 2001, with the help of ROZAN, a Pakistani NGO, Serena translated the GIRL POWER project and introduced it to eight 11-14 year old Pakistani girls in the village of Buri Imam outside of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Upon returning to the U.S., Serena shared photographs and conversations from the Pakistani group with the girls in Detroit and prompted conversation about culture, class and race.
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