Images matter and the Girl Scouts just showed how critical they are for young girls when they had members of the organization bring female icons to life for Women’s History Month.
Instead of just talking to girls about phenomenal trail-blazing women, they had 11 young girls become those women for a day and “actually try historic heroism on for size,” as the Girl Scouts blog notes.
The women included icons of today and yesteryear from Whoopi Goldberg, Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Vera Wang and Mae Jemison to Celia Cruz, Lucille Ball, Madam C.J. Walker, and Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low. And we can’t forget about the subjects of one of the year’s most talked about movies, Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
“Girl Scouting showed me I could do whatever it was that I put my mind to,” said Jayna Cobbs, whose daughter was chosen to represent Condoleezza Rice. “I want my girls to know that they can do anything if they try. Women’s History Month is a great time to teach them that by talking to them about the women who were the first to do things. When they learn about these women and what they went through, they realize that they could do it, too.”
Check out the before-and-after shots taken by Tricia Messeroux of Toddlewood and behind-the-scenes video of the transformations below.
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