Bio

Tammy TibbettsTammy Tibbetts
Founder
She's the First

Tammy Tibbetts is the founder and president of She's the First, a social media-driven and rapidly growing nonprofit organization that sponsors girls' education in developing world countries so that they can be the first in their families to graduate from high school. In 2011, She's the First sponsored 161 girls across eight countries through creative campaigns that included tie-dye cupcake bake sales, the Girls Who Rock concert during Internet Week and the efforts of college students who have started more than 20 She's the First chapters across the country.

Tammy graduated as a budding journalist from the College of New Jersey, and started her career as the youngest Web editor in Hearst Digital Media. Previously she was the social media editor of Seventeen, for which she helped build the fastest-growing Twitter presence in the magazine industry in 2011.