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GEM was founded from a vision that all young women should have the opportunity to succeed despite where they’ve come from or what barriers they’ve faced.

GEM offers a research-based mentorship program for high school girls facing systemic and socioeconomic barriers, equipping them with the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career potential and build a diverse network of ambitious women that inspire and support one another.

Adhering to, and aligning with, feminist principles helps to recognize the systems and structures – both visible and invisible – that lead to gender inequality and other intersecting forms of social injustice, and ensure that this recognition underscores all of our work. It also allows GEM to contextualize programming, and to therefore acknowledge and account for social, political, and cultural considerations. Finally, it commits GEM to addressing unequal power structures and relations by taking steps to transform them where possible.

Girls E-Mentorship (GEM)
The Centre for Social Innovation – Spadina
192 Spadina Avenue
Unit 203
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
[416 477 7284](tel:+1416 477 7284)
info@girlsementorship.com

Land Acknowledgement
Girls E-Mentorship acknowledges that the land on which we meet, work and learn is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudesaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. Our acknowledgement of traditional Indigenous territories is one way to recognize contemporary and historical Indigenous presence and land rights. It is a small step towards dismantling the continued impacts of colonialism and undoing Indigenous erasure in our everyday lives. For more information on the purpose of Land Acknowledgements visit native-land.ca.