ADVANCE THE STATUS OF WOMEN.
LOCAL FUNDRAISERS
AMEILA EARHART
LUNCHEON
In honor of early ZONTA member and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, this luncheon provides a forum to inspire a new generation of girls and young women to follow Earhart’s trailblazing spirit into their own science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career paths.
We host an array of girls from middle and high schools across the Dallas area including Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center, Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Dallas Police Department Youth Outreach Unit, Cedar Hill ISD Collegiate High School, New Tech High Coppell ISD and Hockaday School.
Proceeds from this luncheon funded three Ruth Maddox Young Women in Stem Award Scholarships in 2020 for college women pursuing STEM majors. Any additional proceeds support other Zonta initiatives for the support of women and girls including Our Friends Place, a transitional housing program for young women ages 18-24 who have experienced poverty, homelessness or abuse.
AMELIA EARHART LUNCHEON
MARCH 02,2024
Our 2024 speaker was Jess Truong. She is originally from Arlington, and now resides in Austin, Texas. She graduated with a degree in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at UT Dallas before embarking on a career as a software engineer at Salesforce. In Austin, she dedicates her time to teaching coding to high school students through Code2College, a program dedicated to assisting students to learn how to code. Jess encourages young girls to be comfortable being uncomfortable and seize opportunities by saying yes to (almost) everything!
LOCAL SERVICE PROJECTS
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Our Friends Place offers an important and unique service to abused and neglected girls ages 10 to 17, and young women ages 18 to 24 without family support. They are taught independent living skills and life skills, helping them to become productive members of society.
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