Our story.

2019: It started with the girls themselves.
We gathered late-elementary and middle school girls to help design the first MPower period packs, so they’d feel encouraging, useful, and uplifting. Later that year, we got packs into every Cambridge elementary school, along with backup leggings for anyone whose period arrived unexpectedly (and who didn’t want to wear a boat-sized pad, if one was even available).

2021: We realized it takes a party.
Real change happens when a community gathers, normalizes the conversation, creates as safe, joyful space, and centers the voices of youth. So we threw a party.

2022-2025: The parties grew.
We expanded across Cambridge and into Somerville and Boston, and began partnering with local community and youth-serving organizations to widen our reach. Period Packs kept going out across the city. We became truly community-centered not only in what we do, but how we do it.

2026: Dreaming bigger.
We started hosting pop-up events and poster-making parties for youth, co-sponsoring menstrual advocacy events, and dreaming up the MPowerment Lab for middle school youth. MPower and its founder, Erin Dullea, were named Innovative Social Change-maker by the Cambridge Community Foundation.

2026-27: Youth take the lead.
HERA, our first high school club, is founded by long-time teen volunteers. MPower begins partnering with other teen-led groups and clubs for real, city-wide change.

Now: Our biggest event yet.
Together with MIT and Harvard research programs, student groups, Cambridge health educators, medical professionals, menstrual advocacy groups, wellbeing providers, youth groups, and community partners, we’re hosting the first-ever middle school female health empowerment event on January 21, 2o27…