Jenni Luke, CEO of Step Up, talks the importance of empowering girls and the significance of using your social capital.

Jenni Luke is CEO of Step Up, a nonprofit membership organization inspiring women to inspire girls. In this role, she leads one of the nation’s most sought-after women’s groups in its second decade of service. Overseeing Step Up’s offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, Jenni directs the organization’s objective of propelling girls from under-resourced communities to fulfill their potential. Under her leadership, Step Up empowers girls to become confident, college-bound, career-focused and ready to join the next generation of professional women. Jenni and Step Up recently announced the organization’s expansion to Dallas and Atlanta, slated to occur by 2017. Jenni has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The Nonprofit Times, Inc., InStyle, Real Simple, W, CBS Moneywatch, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, The Huffington Post and Cosmopolitan. In 2014, she was named to Marie Claire’s list of 20 Women Changing the Ratio.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx