Teen Voices awarded the Intergenerational Activist Award to GMA Director Amy Shorey.

The Intergenerational Activist Award recognizes two women who believe in the power of intergenerational work to empower and promote girls’ vision and leadership. This Award celebrates women of all ages learning from and teaching one another in order to create change in our communities.

The award was given in recognition of Amy’s work to promote funding for girls and women on both local and national levels.

Teen Voices is an intensive journalism mentoring and leadership development program for teen girls in Boston whose mission is to further social and economic justice by empowering teen girls and young adult women.

Through its program, teen girls create Teen Voices and Teen Voices Online, two internationally distributed print and online social justice magazines reaching 50,000 readers and receiving 7.6 million hits from 98 countries annually.