Speaking with Josephine Reed at the NEA Arts Magazine (National Endowment for the Arts), Emily Pilloton discusses what goes on inside our girls-only workspace: who the girls are, what they build, and how it affects them.

“I will have a girl walk in the door looking one way and then over the course of an hour and a half she learns how to weld and she walks out the door looking completely different like “I just fused metal. Don’t you dare tell me I can’t do anything.” And it’s really tangible and I love that the simple act of getting to use a tool you haven’t used or doing something that you thought was impossible that those are so immediately transformative for girls, and as an instructor to be able to witness that–it’s incredible.”