JHSC Alumna & Board Member
Armed with her own hand-drawn sketch and the savings from her summer jobs, Megan Grassell set out to make her younger sister, along with tween girls everywhere, an age-appropriate bra. In 2013, at age 17, she founded Yellowberry. With funding from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Megan created colorful, comfortable, and supportive bras for young girls along with a promise to help them feel more confident about wearing bras for the first time. Today, Yellowberry offers a full collection of bras, underwear, lounge, and activewear exclusively for girls with an extra boost of encouragement to dream big and feel supported to do anything in the world.
In 2014 she was on TIME Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Teens and included on Huffington Post’s list of 14 Most Fearless Teens. In 2015, Megan was named one of the 24 Millennials to Watch by Yahoo. In 2016, Megan was selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30. She has been featured in countless media outlets including The TODAY Show, The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Seventeen and Teen Vogue, among others.
In addition to serving as an active company founder, Megan served as a member of the first-ever Barbie Global Advisory Board for Mattel. She is an active member of Pulse, the newly created St. John’s Youth Hospital Board.
Megan was a member of the JHSC Alpine Program from 2002-14.
