NEW YORK TIMES
Allyson Felix & Sports Industry Exec Stef Strack Join Forces to Elevate the Voices of Girls in Sport
VOICEINSPORT
Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix joins VOICEINSPORT as the first Founding Athlete of the digital sport platform for girls and women in sports. Allyson will be a Board Member and Mentor on the platform with her first digital session August 3rd, 2022.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Coaching That Helped This Nike Exec Start Her Own Team
VOICEINSPORT
Stefanie Strack left behind prestigious jobs in the world of apparel to start VIS Holdings, a business that supports young female athletes. It might not have happened without encouragement from her key advisers.
CAPITOL HILL, WASHINGTON DC
A Bill to Fight for Gender Equity Through Strengthening Title IX
WASHINGTON DC
While Title IX has succeeded in delivering more opportunities than ever before, we still fall short of true equality, particularly in sports. Senator Chris Murphy is joining athletes and advocates from Voice In Sport at Capitol Hill to celebrate the successes of the past 50 years of Title IX and discuss where we go next.
THRIVE GLOBAL
Meet the New Team Encouraging Women Athletes to Raise Their Voices
How Voice In Sport is Changing More Than Just the Game
“Girls drop their sports because the deck is stacked against them. From the beginning, their experience in sport is full of societal inequalities, in contrast to what male athletes experience, and it simply has to change. ” Meet Stefanie Strack, the sports industry executive gearing up to bring that change.
Striding onto the field after 15 years building innovative businesses at Nike Inc. and as the CEO of Rag & Bone, Strack is launching Voice In Sport – a two-pronged advocacy platform designed to dramatically accelerate progress in women’s sports. “Voice In Sport (or VIS),” Strack says proudly, “will address the lack of visibility, advocacy and support available to female athletes, first by elevating their voices and then making sure strong mentorship exists for the next generation of girls in sports.”
FORMER NIKE EXEC RALLIES 150 WOMEN IN SPORTS TO LAUNCH STARTUP
BY EMILY CARON. SPORTICO
Voice in Sport has already signed on 90 professional and collegiate athletes, including WNBA player Kiah Stokes and NWSL star Imani Dorsi, who will serve as mentors for the membership-based site’s users.
PHOTO : ALAN STRACK 2020
In Latin, the word ‘vis’ means power. It’s also etymologically linked to the word ‘visibility’—both of which former Nike executive Stefanie Strack wants to give the female athlete community through her startup, Voice in Sport—VIS for short. The community-centric website for girls and young women, ages 13-22, will feature educational content, offer digital mentorship programs and do advocacy work to address gender disparities within sport.
Strack serves as the face of her company as it launches, but she didn’t build it alone. Though she did put more than of $1 million of her own money into building VIS, she also brought on 150 other women to help her launch the platform. VIS’s target audience actually makes up a large portion of the 38-year-old entrepreneur’s team, with dozens of college athletes and students amongst the young company’s ranks.
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VIS® Platform Advocates For Women Athletes.
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Stef Strack, Founder of VIS (Voice in Sport), discusses creating a community to mentor female athletes aged 12-22.
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