Engage Her: Activating Women and MultiCultural Communities

The idea for Engage Her.org  was started in the Spring of 2008 by Mable Yee, an executive and CEO who spent 25+ years in technology, a field dominated  by  male executives.  She always felt the need to increase the numbers of multicultural women leaders in the corporate and non-profit worlds and knew that there continues to be a vacuum of leadership in terms of the numbers of multicultural  women. She also discovered that multicultural women historically fail to turn out to vote in significant numbers.  She produced a documentary,  Engage Her: Getting minority women to lead and vote. It  features stories of multicultural women who fail to vote and the social, political and economic reasons why women don’t civically engage.  The film was released and shown at college campuses and venues across the country in time to impact the 2008 Presidential elections.

During the filming process, many women wanted to join the organization and believed there was a new movement being born to motivate multicultural women to become politically and socially active.  Mable recruited other women and men including Tameeka Kelley and Mina Wilson to join the group and to start a non-profit, EngageHer.org dedicated to educating, activating and connecting women. Engage Her has developed partnerships with national and grassroots organization that share the same goals to collaborate and amplify their great work. The objective is to create a new generation of  multicultural women leaders and make effective change in their families, communities and  our nation through the website and word of mouth in their communities. The unique focus is to bridge the ethnic silos, inter-generational gaps and to leverage technology to create a new community of women and men to support the key issues that our communities care about.