UA School of Business for Young Women

iMentor is proud to announce a new partnership with the Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women (UA BYW). To complement and enhance UA BYW’s mission to provide high quality, college-preparatory education to young women of diverse backgrounds in a nurturing and supportive environment, we led a targeted recruitment drive with several of our corporate partners to find 90 female mentors able to make a two year commitment to these mentees. Thanks to the dedication of our corporate partners and enthusiastic female volunteers, we easily met our need and now are fortunate to have women from a wide array of organizations, including: 100 Women in Hedge Funds, Conde Nast, Goldman Sachs, Ernst and Young, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Marc Ecko Enterprises, Mayor Bloomberg’s Office, UBS, and more.

For the next two years, from 11th grade through high school graduation, these mentors will help prepare young women to navigate the challenges of high school and college applications, learn and practice workplace skills necessary to ensure success in competitive fields, and to grow intellectually and emotionally by exploring NYC’s vast offerings through mentor-mentee email curriculum and event attendances.

UA BYW is the second of four Urban Assembly high schools that iMentor is partnering with this year. To learn more about Urban Assembly, a non-profit organization that creates and manages a community of New York City Public Schools dedicated to preparing students from under-resourced neighborhoods for success in four-year colleges, please visit: http://www.urbanassembly.org/

Travel Directions

Travel Directions:

Take any number of Manhattan subways (A, C, E, F, V, N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to 14th Street and transfer to the L train toward Brooklyn. Take the L to the 1st Avenue stop. Walk south two blocks to East 12th Street and make a left. The school is halfway down the block on the south side of the street.

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About UA School of Business for Young Women

The mission of the Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women is to provide a high quality college-preparatory education to young women of diverse backgrounds in a nurturing and supportive environment. UABYW fosters the development and growth of intelligent and socially conscious young women who will think independently, embrace diversity, and grow intellectually and emotionally.

UASBYW encourages in each student integrity, responsibility and commitment to community. They prepare young women to become future business leaders by exposing them to all areas of business and career options and to compete and succeed in a diverse and ever-changing business environment.

Learn More:

For a more detailed profile of UABYW, visit Inside Schools: http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1452

For Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women’s Official Website, visit: http://www.uasbyw.org

Fun Facts

The 2007-08 junior class participating in iMentor will be the first graduating class (2009)
Students take one business-oriented class every semester, including economics and sports management
Despite its East Village location, students travel to UA BYW from four boroughs of the city.
The mural on the school’s exterior walls was designed by the James De La Vega, the famous New York City artist, which was executed in part by students.

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