Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is the founder and Executive Director of GEMS - Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in Harlem - one of the most ground-breaking non-profit organizations in the US that is helping young women escape the life that Rachel herself did.

Rachel has been featured The New York Times as a Public Lives profile, The New York Sun, The New York Daily News,  Essence, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, The Village Voice, The Daily Telegraph (UK), and The Washington Times among other places. In 2003, Ms. Magazine honored her as ‘One of 50 Women Who Change the World' and she was featured in the New York Daily News in 2004 as ‘One of 100 Women Who Shape Our City'. Rachel has also appeared on many TV and radio shows including Oprah and NPR.

A  two hour documentary film entitled Very Young Girls was made by filmmaker David Schisgall (who previously collaborated with Erroll Morris), starring Rachel and featuring her work with GEMS.