Reel Grrls is a unique after-school media & technology training program that empowers diverse teenage girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills, mentored by a network of women media professionals. Each year, 80 girls go through our program and graduate with valuable skills in video, audio, and web production. We believe that it is important to give young women the skills to critically evaluate the media they are exposed to and then to empower them to produce their own media.

Since 2001 Reel Grrls has worked to bridge the "digital divide" by offering captivating, skill-based media training and accessible after-school programming to over 450 teenage girls in the Puget Sound region. During our five year history, we have developed an internationally acclaimed program that has been showcased as a "model that works" in the field of Youth Media.

Reel Grrls uses media arts and technology training as a vehicle for youth empowerment. Our mission is to give teenage girls a voice in a media environment where they are heavily targeted as consumers but where heir voice is rarely heard. Recognizing that girls were getting short-changed in technology training programs and that they approached learning media differently than boys, we have developed a "girls-only" media program to engage girls in technology literacy exactly at the age where they are prone to drop out.