Watch: A Global Conversation on the Power of Educating Adolescent Girls

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Global Conversation on the Power of Educating Adolescent Girls
Global Conversation on the Power of Educating Adolescent Girls



Glamour is partnering with the White House's Let Girls Learn Initiative on Tuesday to host a panel on the power of educating more than 62 million girls who are not in school around the world.

Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine, will moderate a discussion with special guests First Lady Michelle Obama, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, actress and advocate Charlize Theron and a girl representative from Plan International USA.

The panel's audience includes 1,000 NYC-area schoolgirls, dignitaries and some global leaders. Girls from classrooms in Kenya, Ghana and Pakistan -- who are taking part in the World's Largest Lesson on the new Global Goals -- will be putting their questions to the panel.

Highlights will include news from Let Girls Learn, a government-wide effort that will leverage the investments the U.S. has made and the successes achieved in global primary school to help adolescent girls complete their education. Glamour will also share an update on its first year of The Girl Project, a program dedicated to giving at-risk girls the tools they need every day.

Along with partners CARE, Plan International USA, Girls Inc. and Communities in Schools -- The Girl Project supports girls in 95 countries (including the United States) with a wide suite of programs that meet needs for everything from school uniforms to after-school mentorship.

Be sure to tune in at 11 a.m. EST on AOL.com to catch the live stream of this groundbreaking event.


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