tammytibbetts

Age

24

Industry:

journalism

My day job:

Hearst Digital Media Web Editor & Founding Editor of DonateMyDress.org // independently, Creator of She's the First

School:

The College of New Jersey

Location:

New York, NY

About me

Tammy Tibbetts created She’s the First, a global campaign that promotes the importance of educating girls in the developing world. With an education, every girl has a chance to break barriers and become “the First” to achieve her special goals. Shesthefirst.org leverages young women’s passions and networks offline and online via social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) to fundraise for sponsorships that will send girls to school. Tammy works for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, where she led the creation of DonateMyDress.org, the nonprofit site of Seventeen’s Teen Network. She has created multiplatform, interactive web experiences for teen girls, for which she's managed partnerships with music and retail companies, local schools, and dress drive organizations nationwide. She is also Director of Operations of the MacDella Cooper Foundation, which supports vulnerable children in Liberia, and serves on the Foundation Board of New York Women in Communications. She is a Phi Beta Kappa journalism graduate of The College of New Jersey.

If I could have any job I would be:

Exactly what I am doing now -- digital storytelling via She's the First! Though I secretly wish I could be advertising director of the MTA in NYC and copy editor of the world.