Meredith Walker

Activist, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Journalist, Producer

Meredith Walker is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. Walker began her television career under the mentorship of legendary journalist Linda Ellerbee at Nick News. As a producer of that show, Walker traveled to nearly every state in the U.S. interviewing kids for the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series. This experience became the foundation of Walker’s deepening interest in the lives of young people. Walker went on to serve as the head of the Talent Department for Saturday Night Live, where she met her best friend, Amy Poehler. The pair decided to combine talents to create their shared vision of an organization encouraging and celebrating everyday girls experiencing adolescence. Meredith is leading the charge of what that shared vision became: Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. What started as an online “clubhouse” primarily for girls has evolved to become an inclusive, positive online community for anyone who identifies with its mission of strong self-identiy and advocacy of social justice. Walker has toured far and wide to promote the mission of Smart Girls and document the status of women and girls around the world. She served as the journalism envoy for the U.S. State Department Bureau of Culture and Education’s mission to the Al Za’atari and Emirates Refugee Camps and visited remote primary-care clinics in Haiti and rural villages in Malawi. Meredith was a 2016 WIlliam J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer at the Clinton School for Public Service and her appointments include the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders Advisory Council, the UN Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change (GICC), Common Sense Advisory Board for Gender Equality and the ONE Girls and Women Advisory Board.

global health, girls advocacy, journalism, rescues dogs

You change the world by being yourself.

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