Policy Op-Ed Program
Research a real policy issue, build an evidence-based argument, and develop a polished op-ed with a clear point of view.
Apply →Why should girls wait to lead the room?
HerPathUSA gives girls the support, resources, and platform to spearhead unique projects from the ground up.
Building a path carved by youth
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Join a programGet access to thoughtfully built, unique programs run by youth, for youth.
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Build LeadershipGain responsibility over managing and envisioning the growth of HerPathUSA and its network of volunteers.
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Launch a projectImplement an impactful project across HerPathUSA's global network.
What we build
Public speakers
What we train
Skilled moderators
What we launch
Student-led projects
What we grow
School chapters
Proudly worked with
Reach out to herpathusa@gmail.com for collaborations, and our team will contact your organization promptly.
courage2share
Lake County STEM Gateway
PinoyPals
The Her Initiative
Girls Against Rape
The Aurelia Project
Orbit Magazine
Youth Writes the Future
LWEEC
Building an impact, one founder at a time.
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states and countries
a growing network of youth leaders across the world
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people reached
across programs, digital outreach, events, and volunteer-led work
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Global Programs
distinct programs ran by youth, for youth
Opportunity gaps are not solved by telling girls to wait.
They are solved by building earlier, structured pathways into leadership practice.
HerPathUSA gives every young person a stage to share their ideas and carve their path.
That room might be a school panel, a chapter meeting, a community project, a digital interview, a workshop, or a global youth conversation. Girls learn leadership by doing leadership.
At 15, she began a school strike for climate that grew into Fridays for Future, a youth-led global climate movement.
Greta Thunberg
Source: Fridays for Future and Wikimedia Commons
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At 15, she was named TIME’s first Kid of the Year for inventing, teaching innovation workshops, and using technology to address real problems.
Gitanjali Rao
Source: TIME and Wikimedia Commons
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Known as Little Miss Flint, she started advocating for clean water as a child and used public attention to support families in her community.
Mari Copeny
Source: Catt Center, Teen Vogue, and Wikimedia Commons
About Us
HerPathUSA was founded on the belief that youth should have the space, support, and resources they deserve to carve their own paths. Founded in 2025, HerPathUSA connects over 100,000 ambitious youth across the world to opportunities to create, lead, and turn their ideas into meaningful programs. Rather than asking young people to wait for permission to make an impact, we work to give them the infrastructure to begin now. We are proud to continuously improve and expand the support available through HerPathUSA, helping more young people build the confidence, experience, and community they need to shape what comes next, one path after another.
How HerPathUSA works.
HerPathUSA lets volunteers pitch programs directly to state leadership teams. With their support, projects can gain recognition, funding opportunities, and access to HerPathUSA's wider volunteer network. Here's how it works:
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Get involved
Volunteer with HerPathUSA and participate in at least one existing project so you understand how programs operate across the organization.
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Build your proposal
Create a detailed program outline and prepare a presentation explaining your idea, its goals, how it will work, and what support it will need.
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Pitch your program
Present your program at HerPathUSA's monthly program pitch meeting and gain support from interested state leadership teams.
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Prepare for expansion
Work with the state leadership teams that supported your program to bring the project to their states, completing the materials and systems needed for implementation.
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Launch across the network
Implement the project successfully across HerPathUSA's network, working with participating state teams and volunteers to grow its reach and impact.
Programs & State Leadership
Current HerPathUSA opportunities.
Choose the program or pathway that fits the work you want to do, then apply directly.
Dear D.C. Creative Competition
Use story, essay, poetry, or art to communicate a message with meaning and civic impact.
Apply →Dear Next Chapter
A youth-led letter-writing service for immigrant girls and families beginning a new chapter, built around encouragement, dignity, and human connection.
Apply →HerPathUSA Interviews
Request or pitch an interview connected to girls' leadership, identity, public voice, story, service, or civic impact.
Apply →HerPathUSA Volunteer Signup
Register as a HerPathUSA volunteer to participate in programs, support youth-led projects, and receive access to open opportunities across the network.
Apply →HerPathUSA Chapter Application
Apply to start a HerPathUSA chapter at your school or in your community and bring the HerPath model into a local, repeatable leadership structure.
Apply →HerPathUSA state leadership
HerPathUSA state leadership
Girls should not have to wait to lead a room.
HerPathUSA is designed as a distributed leadership network. A national leadership team develops the organization’s standards, systems, branding, and long-term expansion strategy, while state leadership teams build HerPathUSA on the ground across all fifty states by supporting projects, chapters, volunteers, outreach, media, and internal operations. As the network expands, that structure also creates a pathway for broader international reach while preserving a strong state-based foundation in the United States.
Apply for a HerPathUSA leadership opportunity →State Co-President
Serve as an executive leader of the state, direct the State Officer Team, communicate directly with national leadership, oversee statewide operations and projects, and initiate officer votes when needed.
Digital Marketing Manager
Manage the state's social media platforms, create and publish recurring content, and keep HerPathUSA projects, opportunities, and state activity visible across digital channels.
Public Relations Manager
Research and connect with organizations, speakers, institutions, partners, and other external opportunities that can strengthen HerPathUSA's presence and youth-created projects.
Volunteer Relations Manager
Manage volunteer communications, answer questions, connect volunteers with the correct teams and opportunities, and share updates about ways to get involved across the state.
Development & Fundraising Manager
Support fundraising and development efforts, track incoming and outgoing funds, maintain financial records, and help coordinate funding or grant requests for state initiatives.
Project Development Manager
Support youth-created project ideas from proposal through development by helping Project Leads strengthen plans, connect with state resources, and build projects that can grow across HerPathUSA.
How the team supports projects
Young people can propose and lead projects through HerPath. State leadership provides the operating layer around those Project Leads by helping with visibility, outreach, volunteers, funding coordination, chapter connections, and the systems needed to expand successful ideas.
Join & Chapters
Carve a path of leadership.
As a HerPathUSA volunteer, you will have access to countless programs, project-building opportunities, leadership roles, and an ambitious network of youth.
Apply to join HerPathUSA
Start with the volunteer signup. Once you are registered, you can explore programs, contribute to youth-led projects, pursue leadership roles, and connect with HerPathUSA's wider network.
Apply to join HerPathUSA →Chapters
Start a chapter.
Bring HerPathUSA to your community with dedicated resources and continuous national support.
Step 1
Submit the chapter application
Fill out the HerPathUSA Chapter Application with your school or organization and your vision for your chapter.
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Get your chapter toolkit
HerPathUSA sends you a starter kit with meeting guides, event templates, outreach scripts, and an impact reporting form.
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Run your first Voice Circle
Host your first monthly meeting. Even five members is a chapter. The structure does the rest.
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Host your first Lead the Room event
Within your first term, your chapter runs a public-facing event that students, teachers, or community members can attend.
They lead monthly meetings, organize one event per term, recruit members, submit short updates to HerPathUSA, and create space for other girls to practice leadership too. Chapter leaders are not expected to do everything , they are expected to make sure something happens.
Every chapter is output-based. Members do not just discuss confidence; they produce speeches, interviews, panels, projects, and event recaps. At the end of each term, there is something to show , not just something to remember.
Yes. Chapters can moderate events, support youth panels, host workshops, or run HerPathUSA project tracks with local partners. HerPathUSA provides a collaboration agreement template for any formal partnership.
For school-based chapters, yes , a faculty advisor or adult contact is recommended. For community or independent chapters, you can operate independently and simply register with HerPathUSA.
There is no minimum size. Chapters have started with two people and grown from there. There is no maximum , though chapters with more than 20 active members are encouraged to create sub-teams with their own leads.