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May 13, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Activate Her Voice Announces its First Panel Event in Association

With Green Dot Public Schools

Los Angeles - Activate Her Voice (AHV), an empowerment platform dedicated to engaging, activating and inspiring women and girls by leveraging technology and strategic partnerships, will be hosting their first panel event on Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 at the Locke College Preparatory Academy, 325 E 111th St, Los Angeles, CA 90061, at the Jet Space Facility from 12:00PM - 1:30PM.

Partnering with Green Dot Public Schools, the interscholastic event will feature a panel of women leaders in power who have succeeded in technology, journalism, film and music, providing an intimate opportunity to connect, guide and inspire 25 young women.

The event will be moderated by Nadya Rousseau; a writer, social media consultant and social entrepreneur. Her journalism has been featured by Stackstreet, Examiner, Elite Daily, Yahoo, and LinkedIn. Nadya recently launched Alpha2Alpha, a women's empowerment, resource sharing, and networking movement. She is also the managing director for Organizein, an up and coming web marketing agency.

Panelists include: Ann Greenberg, Julie Bergman, and Asha Dahya.

Ann Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and thought leader. Ann co-founded Gracenote, the leading entertainment data and technology company in the world. Gracenote connects millions of people to the content they love and handles billions of data requests daily for leading consumer electronic, software and automotive devices. Gracenote was acquired by Sony in 2007 and is now owned by Tribune Media. At her new company, Sceneplay, Ann is building a cloud-based collaborative storytelling platform that takes the script format into the 21st century to virtualize and automate media creation. Ann also owns the Hugging Company, an incubator for both blockchain and AR/VR technologies providing cutting edge solutions for diverse industries, including entertainment, real estate and health care.

Asha Dahya is a television host and the Creator and Editor-in-Chief of GirlTalkHQ based out of Los Angeles, CA. GirlTalkHQ is a daily women's news media site with the mission to inspire and empower. It is today's go-to destination for women looking for content that focuses on the representation of women in the media.

Julie Bergman is the co-owner of Balcony Films, an award-winning media company that creates innovative content: films, television, web series, specials, animation, advertising, public service and social campaigns including two films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. Balcony Films leverages success in filmed entertainment, popular culture and journalism to imagine and produce multi-media experience that entertain, invite and challenge audiences to take action, get involved, and make a difference in the world.

The event will conclude with two live performances by artists Julia Marie, who is currently recording her debut EP "Here & Now", to be released in 2016 on RM Records, and Sarai McKenzie, a high school senior, artist, rapper, singer, writer and musician who is Youth Leader and Action Scholar with the Children's Defense Fund as part of their Every Student Matters campaign.

Activate Her Voice (AHV) is an empowerment platform dedicated to engaging, activating and inspiring women and girls. By connecting and facilitating partnerships with organizations and leaders, AHV improves the lives of girls with a core focus on empowering them with tools to impact their career paths. AHV is poised to leverage technology with social engagement, using in-depth research, strategic planning and analysis to integrate and form strategic partnerships, optimizing the outcome of HER.

AHV Brand Affiliations Include:

DigiRAMP Balcony Films

Green Dot Hugging Company

NETTA D3M Licensing Group/Marlo Gold

GirlTalkHQ Brave New World Global

PendulumPR

Activate Her Voice prides itself on being "Beyond Talk ~ Pure Action".

Green Dot Public Schools is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help transform public education so ALL students graduate prepared for college, leadership and life. The US Department of Education has featured Green Dot as a national leader in school turnarounds, and it is the only charter school operator in the country to lead the turnaround of a 3,000-plus-student high school.

For more information; go to http://activatehervoice.com/

For Press Inquiries, please contact

Ilya Shapiro at ilya@pendulumpr.com

Tel: 203.767.0356