Planting Seeds of Confidence.
Junior Jewels is ISJ's youth programming, creative workshops designed to help young girls discover confidence, self-expression, and the power of showing up for themselves.
My mother taught me that putting on your earrings before you leave the house isn't about vanity. It's about telling yourself you matter. That lesson shaped everything I am.
But she didn't just teach that lesson to me. My mother was a Girl Scout leader. She led our Junior troop, our Cadette troop, and our Senior troop. For years, she poured into young girls, teaching them about confidence, about their history, about showing up for themselves and each other. She had us selling cookies, making beaded jewelry with our hands, learning what it meant to be young women with purpose. Girl Scouts was where my hands-on creativity really started, where I first understood that making something beautiful with your hands could change how you felt about yourself.
That was her gift. She planted seeds in every girl she touched.
Junior Jewels is how I continue her work. She did it through Girl Scouts. I'm doing it through ISJ. Different vehicle, same mission: show a young girl that she matters, give her something to create with her own hands, and watch what happens to the way she carries herself.
Junior Jewels exists because every girl deserves to hear that message early. Before the world tells her to shrink, before she starts questioning her worth, before she forgets that she was born to take up space, we want her to know: you matter. And here's proof. You just made something beautiful with your own hands.
These workshops aren't just about making jewelry. They're about building the kind of confidence that doesn't wash off.
Programs
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Birthday Parties
The birthday girl and her friends create custom earrings in a fun, guided session. Everyone takes home what they made, and the birthday girl gets a special ISJ piece as a gift.
Ages 8–17. | 1.5–2 hours | 6–15 girls | Starting at $350
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Confidence & Creation
A structured creative workshop designed for schools, after-school programs, community centers, and youth organizations. Each session ties jewelry-making to a conversation about confidence, identity, and self-expression. Girls learn that what they create with their hands reflects what they carry inside.
1.5–2 hours | 10–30 girls | Starting at $500
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Mother-Daughter Workshops
Pairs create jewelry together while guided conversation prompts explore legacy, wisdom, and the things passed down between generations. Each pair takes home matching or complementary pieces. In the spirit of the relationship that started it all, Kenyotta and Iris.
2–2.5 hours | 8–20 pairs | Starting at $750
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Girl Empowerment Series
A 4–6 week program where each session builds on the last. Week by week, girls explore the three ISJ pillars through creation: Culture (where do I come from?), Confidence (who am I becoming?), Connection (who am I building with?). The series culminates in a showcase where girls present their creations to family and community.
4–6 weekly sessions, 1.5 hours each | 10–20 girls | Custom pricing
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Summer & Holiday Camps
Single-day or week-long creative camps during school breaks. Each day has a theme, a creation project, and a takeaway piece. Girls spend the week immersed in art, culture, and confidence-building.
Single day (4 hours) or full week (5 days) | 10–25 girls | Starting at $750 (single day) / Custom (full week)
Junior Jewels programming is designed to integrate with your existing youth services. We work with your team to customize content, align with your outcomes, and deliver programming that fits your mission.
We provide all materials, instruction, and facilitation. Your organization provides the space and the girls. Together, we plant seeds.
If your organization has existing grant funding or programming budgets allocated for youth creative development, Junior Jewels workshops are designed to align with those funding structures. We can also provide program descriptions, budgets, and outcome frameworks to support new grant applications for organizations seeking funding.