Girl Security’s vision is grounded in an unwavering commitment to listen to and value the personal security experiences of the communities we serve.  As an organization, we believe that the unparalleled insights of more than half the population – girls and women – who exist in a world in which they are taught to fear everything, but secured from nothing, can inform a new, more inclusive understanding of national security and yield smarter, more ethical national security outcomes.

We seek a nation in which the rationales that underlie, and decisions that affect, the lives of the majority of its people reflect the experiences of that same majority.

Tolerance is an important guide to Girl Security’s mission to build a national security  workforce that represents the nation it is securing. Given the longstanding barriers to women’s  advancement in national security, Girl Security’s model is designed to engage a future workforce who represent a diversity of experience, thought, and understanding in national security.

Girl Security’s core values include: respect, tolerance, support, empathy, purpose, and resilience. In order to ensure all participants achieve the positive and supportive experience we strive to create, we foster respect through each other; we recognize each other’s individuality; we value diversity, inclusion, and equity for its many critical benefits to our engagement as a community and our nation’s security. Because national security requires tolerance, it is important that we exercise tolerance of each other’s values, ethics, and opinions through active listening. Lastly, we value privacy. Before sharing information about a peer or posting imagery on social media, ask permission.

• Read the Girl Security Statement on Anti-AAPI Racism
• Read the Girl Security Statement on Racism and National Security.
• Read the Girl Security Statement on Misogyny.