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In this edition of Empowered Women Empower<\/a>, join us for a peek inside the inspiring mind of Nadya Okamoto. A 23-year old Harvard graduate, Nadya has made her life’s work fighting period stigma and reimagining period care as powerful and inclusive. Already a successful author, speaker, and entrepreneur, most recently Nadya decided to further impact the period conversation with a social enterprise. Thus the creation of her newest venture, August, an empowering, sustainable, and ethically-made period care lifestyle brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meet Nadya<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At just 16 Nadya Okamoto founded her first business, PERIOD (period.org<\/a>), an organization fighting to end period poverty and stigma. During her leadership as Executive Director for five years, PERIOD addressed over 1.5 million periods and registered over 800 campus chapters in all 50 states and 50 other countries. Young and dedicated, next on Nadya’s plight to reimagine period care came her debut book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement<\/em><\/a>, published in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing the strength of a social enterprise and knowing period care could be more sustainable, impactful, and inclusive, in 2020 Nadya co-founded August<\/a> alongside her best friend, the equally ambitious and passionate marketing guru Nick Jain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadya has been recognized on the lists of Forbes 30 under 30<\/a>, Bloomberg 50 \u201cOnes to Watch\u201d<\/a> and People Magazine’s Women Changing the World<\/a>. Further, in addition to August she also recently launched a podcast called Tigress<\/a>, where she talks about mental health, intersectional feminism, and empowerment. Nadya Okamoto is a young woman on a mission! So of course there is, and will certainly continue to be, more to her story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be Empowered by Nadya Okamoto<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Love Happens: As our name, and the tagline of our published KOKET<\/a>, denotes we are firm believers that you cannot achieve any level of success without love. When did your passion for reimagining period care and empowering women begin? And how did it make you feel?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nadya Okamoto:<\/strong> I learned about period poverty in 2014 from hearing stories directly from homeless women about their experience of not being able to afford period products. I had never heard of period poverty before then. But learning about that and the fact that the tampon tax existed in 40 states at the time ignited a fire in me. I knew I had to take action. So that year, I started what is now known as PERIOD.org, a nonprofit. I led it as executive director until January 2020 before I began my journey focusing on August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empowering women has always been a passion of mine. I think it stems from growing up with a badass single mom and two younger sisters who inspired me every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n