Ella Rises empowers young women to pursue higher education and embrace their heritage through a transformative journey of culturally rooted STEM and Arts "STEAM" programs. Serving 150 students annually, ages 11–18. We remove critical financial and logistical barriers for first-generation, low-income families and bridge a gap that limits higher education attainment.
Our curriculum fosters greater self-confidence, identity, and purpose through weekly performing arts instruction, elite STEAM, leadership events, and university tours. We believe that broadening a young woman’s vision of what is possible empowers her to rise as a transformative leader.
Your generosity fuels opportunities for more than 1,000 girls.