Girls on the Run St. Louis has elected officers to its Board of Directors. Meet the dynamic people who will lead Girls on the Run St. Louis into its 25th year as one of the largest independent councils in the international network, dedicated to providing access to high quality, evidence-based curriculum that supports girls’ confidence, competence, physical and mental health, as well as their connection to their community. 

Elected officers to the board include: chair Maggie Rapplean, MBA, CFP, Partner, Moneta Group; vice chair Steven Wasserman, Vice President of Claims, Litigation and Insurance, BJC HealthCare; secretary Dorothy Bell, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, St. Louis Community Credit Union;  treasurer Jesika Barnes, CPA, Managing Director Audit, Department of Professional Practice, KPMG, LLP; immediate past chair Dr. Amy Eyler, CHES, Vice Provost for Academic Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis.

About Girls on the Run St. Louis: 

Girls on the Run St. Louis is a life-changing, non-profit program for girls in 3rd
through 8th grades, a critical time in girls’ self-development. We inspire girls to
be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that
creatively integrates running. Girls are empowered with positive self-
awareness and increased confidence, a sense of achievement by training for
and completing a 5k and giving back to their community through a service
project each season. Girls experience confidence through accomplishment
becoming girls who can.  

Girls on the Run St. Louis was founded in 2002 and is now one of the largest councils
in North America. Today, Girls on the Run St. Louis is in more than 450
schools and community sites across 23 counties in eastern Missouri and
western Illinois. Girls on the Run is included as a top research-based program
in a Social-Emotional Learning Guide developed by researchers at Harvard
University and has been recognized by the National Afterschool Association
(NAA) as one of the most influential after-school programs in the nation. The
Office of the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and the U.S. Public
Health Service highlighted Girls on the Run as an example of a program that
is effective and necessary to support the mental and physical health of our
nation’s young people. Visit www.girlsontherunstlouis.org to learn more about
how you can empower a girl and empower a generation.