Alaina: Listening to Girls, Creating Possibilities

October 12, 2026

For Alaina, Girl Scouts wasn't part of her childhood. But today, she gets to help make it part of hundreds of girls' childhoods.

For the past year and a half, Alaina has worked in Outreach, serving schools in South Omaha. One of her favorite parts of the job is watching girls grow from elementary school into middle school and being greeted by excited girls and running hugs when she arrives.

For many of the girls she works with, Girl Scouts is something special to look forward to each week: a place to have fun, try new things, and build connections after school.

This summer, Alaina was leading programming that brought girls from several schools together. One girl approached her afterward with a simple question: Why hadn't Alaina been to her school yet? She was having so much fun and wanted her classmates to experience it, too. Alaina promised she would do what she could.

She reached out to the school's principal, who was thrilled to bring Girl Scouts to the school. Now, Alaina leads an Outreach troop there every week.

Sometimes, creating access starts with listening when a girl says, “Can you come to my school?”

Alaina wasn't a Girl Scout herself, but she grew up with plenty of Girl Scout Cookies in the house. Her grandmother was a troop leader in the 1960s when Alaina's aunt was a Girl Scout, and she always talked about what a special time it was in her life.

Today, Alaina is creating those memories for a new generation of girls.

100 years. Countless stories. One lasting legacy.