Tammy Tibbetts

Biography

Tammy Tibbetts founded She's the First, an organization that funds scholarships for girls in low-income countries so that they can be the first in their families to graduate from high school. She’s the First directly impacts students in the U.S., too, providing mentorship, leadership training, and global awareness opportunities to members of more than 100 campus chapters.

It was through her reporting as a student journalist that Tammy developed an interest in global education, which she pursued through volunteer work after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from The College of New Jersey. She was first in her family to graduate college.

Tammy originally launched She’s the First as a YouTube video campaign when she was a web editor at Hearst Magazines. As Seventeen’s first-ever Social Media Editor, she had great success and was recognized on the cover of min, an industry publication, as one of the “13 under 30” rising stars in the business.

As the She’s the First campaign took off and became a full-fledged non-profit organization, Tammy ultimately transferred her skills from the media world into social entrepreneurship. As the President of She’s the First today, Tammy is responsible for the business of the organization, developing shared value partnerships with luminaries, philanthropists, companies, and media. Under her leadership, She’s the First has had exponential growth in reach and revenue (2013 revenue was over half a million, which was double the previous year).

In 2013, Tammy received the People’s Voice Award from Diane von Furstenberg. She has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, TIME magazine’s “30 under 30” World-Changers, one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” in Education, and is recognized as one of “20 Women Changing the World” in the September 2014 issue of Marie Claire.

In her “free” time, Tammy is training for the NYC Marathon—her first! She is reachable via tammy@shesthefirst.org and @tammytibbetts on Twitter.

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