Do you believe the arts and your inner creativity can create change in your community, or even the world? This week, Girl EMPOWERED Host, Haile Thomas, shares her inspiring conversation with her fellow BLACK GIRLS ROCK (2016 M.A.D. Girls Honoree) Maya Penn. Maya is a 17-year-old award-winning eco-designer, artist, philanthropist, activist, entrepreneur, animated filmmaker, coder, illustrator, writer and author of You Got This! (Published by Simon & Schuster). She has been featured in countless publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The View, NPR,CNN, TIME, Essence Magazine, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, O Magazine, The Steve Harvey Show, Entrepreneur Magazine, Ebony, Black Enterprise, an many more. Maya has given three TEDTalks and her latest TEDWomen Talk has gone viral worldwide and with almost two million views and growing. She is known as the youngest female to do two back-to-back official TEDTalks. AND Maya has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her Supersoul 100 influencers. AND Google has partnered with Maya to speak to girls about coding and computer science at their Made With Code events. Haile and Maya, dive into how creativity can spark change, authentic leaderships & activism, and successfully occupying and maneuvering spaces generally populated by adults.