First speaker for TedX South Lake Tahoe announced

"Building Bridges” is the theme for TEDx SouthLakeTahoe 2018 to be held on Saturday, September 8, and over the next several weeks organizers will be unveiling their speaker lineup.

Take Our Daughters to Work Day was started in 1993 by Nell Merlino, an author and activist/catalyst for the advancement of women and girls, and she has been announced as a speaker at the 2018 TedX South Lake Tahoe evening that invites the community to be part of.

She mobilized more than 25 million people to recognize girls’ value and potential during "Take Our Daughters to Work Day."

Seven years later, in 2000, Nell launched Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence, the first online micro lender. Senator Hillary Clinton joined Nell in 2006 to launch the Make Mine a Million $ Business program to help women grow micro businesses to million dollar enterprises.

As an expert on business growth and the value and visibility of girls, Nell has provided commentary on every major news outlet including CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, The Today Show, NBC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and The New York Times. Her media appearances, quotes and stories have generated over 3 billion female focused media mentions.

Nell is currently working on the sequel to Take Our Daughters to Work Day called Born Worthy. Her new initiative prepares our digital daughters, their parents and community for full and total equality with a 21st Century Rite of Passage from Girlhood to Womanhood.

For more on the follow up to 2017's successful event, TedX South Lake Tahoe can be found at http://tedxsouthlaketahoe.com/.