Missouri youth recognized in first-ever Prudential Emerging Visionaries program
On February 15, 2022, Prudential Financial recognized Elise Zeigler, a 17-year-old from St. Louis, as a 2022 Prudential Emerging Visionary. She is one of 25 young leaders awarded $5,000 each to support innovative solutions addressing community challenges. Elise's Selah Textiles project empowers immigrant women through textile production. The emerging visionaries program, a collaboration with Ashoka, highlights youth contributions to addressing COVID-19 impacts and economic inequality. A summit is scheduled for April 23-26, 2022, featuring workshops and networking opportunities.
- Elise Zeigler awarded $5,000 for her community project, Selah Textiles.
- Emerging Visionaries program enhances Prudential's community engagement.
- Prudential demonstrates commitment to addressing financial and societal challenges.
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elise Zeigler, 17, of St. Louis, today was named a 2022 Prudential Emerging Visionary for bringing powerful vision and meaningful change to her community.
As one of 25 young people from across the country selected in this year's inaugural class, Elise will receive
Prudential Emerging Visionaries recognizes young people ages 14-18 whose fresh perspectives and innovative solutions address the pressing financial and societal challenges in their communities. It is a collaboration between Prudential Financial and Ashoka, a leading social impact organization, with advisory support from the Financial Health Network, an authority on financial health and longtime partner of The Prudential Foundation. The program is an evolution of the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the country's largest youth recognition program, which for 26 years honored more than 150,000 outstanding youth volunteers.
"Emerging Visionaries is another way Prudential is demonstrating its commitment to our purpose: to make lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world," said Chairman and CEO Charles Lowrey. "The students we're honoring have a sense of possibility that drives them to look beyond themselves. Their vision and dedication are key to creating fully inclusive communities, and we are humbled and inspired by their work."
That work includes addressing needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic, combating economic inequality, advocating for inclusion and closing the digital divide. This inaugural group of young leaders was selected based on four main criteria: their solution is innovative; it can create meaningful impact in the future and can scale to a wider community; it demonstrates a deep understanding of the issue; and it inspires the visionary to lead or take action and motivates others to do the same.
Here is Missouri's Prudential Emerging Visionary for 2022:
Elise Zeigler, 17, of St. Louis, Missouri, established "Selah Textiles," to create financial opportunities for women immigrants, refugees and underserved individuals through the production of screen-printed textiles. The business offers these women an opportunity to design and print towels, tote bags and greeting cards, with the profits going to local organizations serving immigrant populations.
Elise wants the project to be an introduction to business management for the participants. The organization currently employs 11 women from six countries, and Elise is hoping to pass on leadership of the organization to one of these employees once the project has become self-sustaining.
To read the names and stories of all of this year's Prudential Emerging Visionaries, visit prudential.com/emergingvisionaries.
About Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial wellness leader and premier active global investment manager, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prudential's diverse and talented employees help to make lives better by creating financial opportunity for more people. Prudential's iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for more than a century. For more information, please visit news.prudential.com.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the largest global network of leading social entrepreneurs — individuals with new ideas to systemically address the world's biggest challenges and the entrepreneurial skill to transform those ideas into national, regional and global social impact. Over 40 years, Ashoka has supported more than 3,600 social entrepreneurs in 90 countries with solutions addressing society's most pressing issues. Ashoka's vision is a world in which Everyone Is a Changemaker — a society that responds quickly and effectively to challenges, and where every individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem. For more information, visit ashoka.org.
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