Bee Nguyen
Founder
Executive Director 2009-2019
Bee Nguyen founded Athena's Warehouse in 2009. The organization is a product of her love for women and girls and entrepreneurship. Her prior experiences include work with Boat People SOS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and most recently the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. She graduated from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies with a Master of Public Administration in 2012. In addition to having served as the Executive Director for Athena's, Bee is a member of the Atlanta Regional Board Millennial Committee, a mentor for the Wren's Nest, and a fellow with the 2015 Georgia Women Policy Institute program. She also hosts and facilitates a series of racial justice conversations What We Talk About When We Talk About Race. Outside of community work, Bee spends her free time running, biking, and hiking with her family and friends.
Since 2009 Athena’s Warehouse has worked to provide positive experiences to young women. Our very first program was the Prom Dress Project, we collect gently used formal dresses from women in the community, have the dresses cleaned and then give the dresses away to students. Through this program we were able to ascertain that there was a deeper need in the community, that many of the young women we are serving have low self esteem, and these students have a lot of responsibilities to help their families financially. Thus the, formerly “Be Awesome Be Aware”, now “Discover Your Inner Warrior” program was born. We needed a way to establish a sense of belonging, to show students that they were connected to their community and that their voices were important.
2014 Focus Group Photo