Geaux Girl Media

Geaux Girl! is a print and online magazine created for and with New Orleans teen girls. We provide a creative local platform for girls to express themselves and make their voices heard. In partnership with experts in the community, we also make comprehensive health education accessible in a relatable, authentic format. Our vision is a community of girls who engage with and inspire each other, and who are empowered to make informed decisions about their reproductive and mental health.

As New Orleans' only nonprofit magazine for adolescent girls, we address a wide range of needs associated with the vulnerable teen girl demographic. We cover everything that girls want and need to know about. Our range of topics is intentionally inclusive and developed in close cooperation with our Teen Advisory Council. Created together with girls from all over the city as well as professionals in the community, Geaux Girl! accompanies New Orleans girls as they tackle both the exciting and the difficult parts of transitioning into young womanhood.

Born out of the urgent need for comprehensive sex education in New Orleans, Geaux Girl! teams up with local experts and girls themselves to provide meaningful health information inside a fun, beautiful print and online magazine. By normalizing conversations about reproductive and mental health, Geaux Girl! breaks down stigma and empowers girls to take care of themselves.

Geaux Girl! also offers girls a local outlet for their fierce creativity and curiosity. Targeting girls ages 12-18 from all backgrounds across the New Orleans area, we celebrate diversity and individuality while building a sense of community among girls and women. By giving all girls opportunities to express themselves creatively, make their voices heard, and learn from each other, we are helping foster understanding, inclusion, and belonging. What's more, we are encouraging NOLA girls to become leaders and compassionate citizens.

We deliver free copies of our beautiful glossy print magazine to 100+ locations all over the New Orleans area in collaboration with distribution partners that include public libraries, community centers, youth-serving nonprofits, schools, health clinics, and doctor's offices. All content is also made available via our engaging online magazine. Geaux Girl!'s positive and empowering social media presence further elevates girls' authentic voices and meets their needs.

Beyond the magazine, we partner with other organizations in the community, such as the Louisiana Public Health Institute, to raise awareness and advance initiatives focused on adolescent health, girls' empowerment, and comprehensive sex education.

Testimonials

"I love the idea that us girls in New Orleans have our own magazine. When I read Geaux Girl! for the first time, I really felt like, Wow, I'm not alone. I also just enjoy reading it."
-- Ella, 14

"Geaux Girl! displays diversity and uniqueness, all while including creative content by and for girls. It's authentic."
-- Samarah, 15

"Geaux Girl! is truly a home for every female, regardless of sexuality, religion, or race. It's a community that binds people together over the belief that we, as women, can do anything."
-- Gabi, 15

"Geaux Girl! magazine allows girls from New Orleans to have a platform. It's a fun, honest, engaging opportunity for young women, and it is so necessary."
-- Chandler, 14

"The Geaux Girl! Teen Advisory Council is a sisterhood of young girls coming together as one to help other girls follow in their footsteps."
-- Mylah, 16

"Young women and girls in NOLA need an accessible resource to help them learn more about themselves."
-- Evelynn, 18

"I am proud to be affiliated with something so fantastic."
-- Florencia Greer Polite, MD, chief of the division of general obstetrics and gynecology at Penn Medicine & Geaux Girl board member

"Geaux Girl! delivers straight, factual information about our bodies and ourselves that young women might be too embarrassed to ask their mothers."
-- Karin Giger, civic activist & Geaux Girl board member

"Geaux Girl! is an uplifting organization for young girls, an influential and informative magazine, and a way for girls to feel like themselves while being told, 'You geaux, girl.'"
-- Y'vonne Antoine, student at Tulane University & Geaux Girl team member

"I am very inspired by your magazine! It is not easy to find good content for girls that is interesting, empowering and relevant. Your target audience is one that needs and deserves more attention and focus. As a psychologist who sees teens in my practice and as a mother of a 12-year-old girl, I am happy to know you are out there. Thank you!"
-- Arian Elfant, PhD, clinical psychologist

"The variety of articles and the layout and the spunky attitude within the glossy pages are just terrific. My students were SO excited when I passed them out and my colleagues at NOCCA have been buzzing about the magazine as well...