{"id":6022,"date":"2014-12-22T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:48:35","slug":"dr-carla-featured-in-university-of-michigan-school-of-public-health-magazine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/2014\/12\/dr-carla-featured-in-university-of-michigan-school-of-public-health-magazine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carla Featured in University of Michigan School of Public Health Magazine: What Does It Take to Change the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pbs-main-wrapper\"><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/perseverance-500px.png\" alt=\"perseverance-500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/perseverance-500px.png 500w, https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/perseverance-500px-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carla Stokes&#8217;s groundbreaking research and work as an adolescent health expert, professional youth speaker, leadership and business coach for women and girls, and founder of Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations, Inc.\u00a0is featured in <em>Findings<\/em> (Volume 30, Number 1), the official magazine published by the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM SPH).<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights how Dr. Carla&#8217;s perseverance helped her overcome challenges and transform from the founder of a struggling nonprofit organization to a thriving social entrepreneur and internationally recognized leader in the movement to empower girls.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carla completed her Doctor of Philosophy (with distinction) and Master of Public Health degrees in Health Behavior and Health Education (with a doctoral cognate in Social Work) from the University of Michigan. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/research-publications\" xlink=\"href\">doctoral dissertation research<\/a> investigated the intersections between adolescent girls\u2019 sexuality, identity and body image with youth culture, hip hop and social media. She was recognized with an\u00a0honorable mention in the University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Awards competition, the highest award given to University of Michigan graduate students. Her research has appeared in scholarly publications including the international peer-reviewed journal,\u00a0<em>Culture, Health &amp; Sexuality<\/em>\u00a0and the book,\u00a0<em>Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Sharon Mazzarella.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on the image below to read the article by Madeline Diehl.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UMFindings-Perseverence.pdf');\" target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UMFindings-Perseverence.pdf\" xlink=\"href\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6027 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UMFindings-Perseverence-500px.png\" alt=\"UMFindings-Perseverence-500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UMFindings-Perseverence-500px.png 500w, https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/UMFindings-Perseverence-500px-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/issuu.com\/umsph\/docs\/fall2014_findings_single_page2');\" target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/umsph\/docs\/fall2014_findings_single_page2\" xlink=\"href\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to download the entire publication<\/strong> (page 19).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sph-logo.png\" alt=\"sph-logo\" width=\"451\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sph-logo.png 451w, https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sph-logo-300x42.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carla Stokes&#8217;s groundbreaking research and work as an adolescent health expert, professional youth speaker, leadership and business coach for women and girls, and founder of Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations, Inc.\u00a0is featured in Findings (Volume 30, Number 1), the official magazine published by the University of Michigan School of Public Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,127,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events","category-selected-scholarship","category-whats-hot","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Carla Featured in University of Michigan School of Public Health Magazine: What Does It Take to Change the World? 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Her groundbreaking research helped shape contemporary understanding of adolescence and girlhood in the digital age. Dr. Carla's scholarship has been published in academic books and journals, taught in university courses, and featured in respected media outlets including The New York Times, NBC, CBS, Fast Company, Yahoo! Parenting, Reuters, Woman's Day, and Ebony. As the founder of Teen Girl University\u2122, she prepares ambitious girls and the next generation of women leaders to make healthy choices, lead with purpose, and create meaningful change in an increasingly complex digital world. For 15 years, Dr. Carla also served as the founder and Executive Director of Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations, Inc. (HOTGIRLS)\u00ae, an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and lives of underserved Black young women and girls. 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Through leadership development, capacity building, strategic business education, and mentoring, Dr. Carla helped participants strengthen their organizations, programs, services, and facilitation and speaking skills to expand their expertise, influence, and impact."}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8479,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions\/8479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drcarla.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}