As you well know by now, this week Worth held a three-day Women & Worth Virtual Summit, focusing on the importance of powering forward now more than ever. For these three days, we were joined by a team of bright and ambitious young women from Être, a program started by Illana Raia that offers mentorship to middle school- through college-aged girls and women and aims to inspire confidence in young women to stay true to what they really love.

Want to know how teenagers are handling COVID-19? Hear what these 5 young women from Être, a resource and mentorship platform for middle and high school girls, have to say about what they’re worried about, how they’ve spent the last six months, and what they’ve learned about themselves. Here's what teenagers want you to know about what they're doing.

“More than that, she didn’t know what any of my friends did, and they had some of the coolest jobs ever! Surgeons, CEOs, writers and Wall Street wizards – she didn’t see them in their element,” says Raia. “So when she was in middle school I started taking her to see where they worked, and she loved it. The whole time we were doing this, I kept thinking girls everywhere should be doing this.”

Adrienne’s guest is Illana Raia, the CEO and founder of the organization Être Girls - a mentorship program and platform that connects professional women with school age girls. Her work helping and mentoring middle school and high school girls is both incredible and inspiring, as is Illana Raia! Her work connecting female mentors in large and small corporations all around the country with girls gives them an amazing opportunity to ask questions, to learn about certain professions, and to seek out role models so that they can become exactly who they want to be.