Throughout the pandemic, Girls Write Nashville — a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program that helps build a positive and empowering community for teen girls — hustled to keep its programming going. They worked with young people to remotely record an album called Sing Through the Quarantine and partnered with street paper The Contributor to publish a student-created bilingual Youth Voices column, in which teens wrote about social issues. They earned a Metro Arts Thrive grant for their work there. (Full disclosure: I do contract work for The Contributor.) The programs at Girls Write Nashville are free to middle- and high school-age girls who attend a Title 1 school in Davidson County — and the organization provides a supportive umbrella for the teens in their cohort.
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Girls Write Nashville in the studio in 2019
