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Keren Taylor, Executive Director of WriteGirl, has been a community leader for nearly two decades. In 2001, she founded WriteGirl with the idea of leveraging the skills of women writers to mentor underserved youth through a slate of creative writing workshops, one-on-one mentoring and college readiness programs. Under Keren’s direction, WriteGirl
has become a recognized and lauded innovator in youth arts education in Los Angeles, building unique partnerships with leading civic and cultural organizations.
Committed to providing a cutting edge approach to learning and creativity, Keren and the WriteGirl leadership draw from many different fields and backgrounds to design dynamic programing to reach girls of widely disparate learning levels and engage even the most reticent learner. For 11 years, WriteGirl has guided 100% of the high school seniors in its Core Mentoring Program to graduate from high school and enroll in college.
Working with a team of editors and designers, Keren has directed the production of over two dozen anthologies of writing by teen girls and their mentors. To date, WriteGirl publications have been awarded 55 national and international book awards.
Keren has overseen WriteGirl’s expansion into a thriving community of women and teen writers and an organization that helps hundreds of Los Angeles girls annually. In 2010, WriteGirl was awarded a Medal for Service and named the 2010-2011 California Nonprofit of the Year by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver. WriteGirl also received the 2010 HUMANITAS Philanthropy Prize and was a finalist in the 2011 National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Awards.
