Coffee and Politics - Girlboss CEO Alexia Hilbertidou
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Alexia Hilbertidou is a New Zealand social entrepreneur and the founder of GirlBoss New Zealand, a not-for-profit organisation which aims to empower women in leadership, entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Hilbertidou is a strong advocate for equity of access and for ensuring every young woman in New Zealand, regardless of their socioeconomic status, can succeed.
Alexia will be guest speaking at our first Young Labour edition ‘Coffee and Politics’.
The event is in Room G104 in NMIT’s Arts and Media building.
Please bring 5$ to help us with Alexia’s travel costs, and some coins for our famous raffle!
RSVP to sarah.kerby@labour.org.nz or 0279211061 to secure your seat!
Read Alexia’s recognitions below - all this and she’s only 19!
In 2016, Hilbertidou won the Young Leader Award, an award given to the most influential New Zealand woman under at the age of 25, at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.
She is an Eisenhower Youth Fellow and New Zealand's representative at the Global Teen Leader Summit.
She also received the AIMES Bellingham Wallace Emergent Talent Award, which enabled her to work full-time on GirlBoss.
In July 2017, Hilbertidou was invited by NASA to be part of the SOFIA Project and ride onboard NASA's 747 jumbo jet during an overnight exploratory mission.She is the youngest person to receive such an invitation.
Hilbertidou is also the youngest member of the Super Diverse Women Network led by Mai Chen.
In 2018 Hilbertidou received a Queen's Young Leader Award for her work founding GirlBoss.
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