Rebel Girls: 25 Tales Books

Rebel Girls is an award-winning media company on a mission to raise a generation of confident girls and create a more equal world. Through vivid storytelling and compelling multimedia content, we encourage girls to explore, learn, and dream without limits. This organic message of female empowerment is free from forced stereotypes traditionally imposed on young girls and gives them real life heroines for inspiration.

Elena Favilli is a writer and media entrepreneur. She has worked for Colors magazine, McSweeney’s, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica, and has managed digital newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic. She holds a masters degree in semiotics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and she studied digital journalism at U.C. Berkeley. In 2011, she created the first iPad magazine for children, Timbuktu magazine. She is the founder and CEO of Timbuktu Labs. Francesca Cavallo was born in Taranto (Southern Italy) in 1983. She grew up in Italy, graduated with high honors at the University of Milan and got an MFA at the Academy of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi” in stage directing. She founded her own theater company and toured Italy, Germany and Switzerland with her award-winning plays.