Girls Auto Clinic revolution
8/11/2016Girls Auto Clinic (GAC) is a woman owned and operated business run by Patrice Banks, engineer and automotive technician. Patrice, a mechanic that caters to women, started GAC to educate and empower women through their cars!
It’s no secret that women generally do not understand vehicles – how they operate or how to maintain them. Most women hate the automotive buying and repair process because we feel misunderstood, taken advantage of, and/or mistreated. To make things worse, the automotive industry has not done much to ease concerns, anxiety, and fear despite the fact more than half their customers are women and spend $200 Billion (with a B) a year on buying and repairing their cars.
Patrice was once one of these women. A self-proclaimed “auto airhead,” Patrice created a business model that supports a need in the lives of millions: automotive services, products, and resources that cater to women based on trust, education, inclusion, and empowerment.
Girls Auto Clinic wants women to be confident drivers and smart consumers. We strive to be a visionary leader in the automotive industry by changing the way the industry views and markets to women while also changing the beliefs women have towards the industry through education and niche marketing.
GAC offer trustworthy, open, and down-to-earth dialogue about the workings of vehicles and how to service and maintain them through female auto repair garages, car care workshops, books, an apparel line, and more! We change the relationship women have with their cars by giving each and every women driver a unique and memorable automotive experience!
#sheCANics, are you ready to start your journey on becoming a more confident driver? Let’s do this!
Patrice Banks, former auto airhead and founder of Girls Auto Clinic (GAC), is disrupting the automotive industry with her inspiring and energetic message of “educating and empowering woman through their cars!” Patrice an engineer and automotive technician, created a movement that inspires woman, the #1 customer in the auto industry to change the relationship they have with their car! GAC offers automotive buying and repair resources, products, and services based on trust, education, inclusion, and empowerment.
Whether she is delivering a car care workshop, giving a TEDx talk, writing an OP-ed in the Washington Post, appearing on numerous TV shows including CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, and The FABLife, or working on your car, Patrice has reached millions across America with her passion and commitment for educating women and closing the gender gap in the automotive industry. Her story has been told in numerous print and online publications such as O Magazine, Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, Elite Daily, ABC Today, and Black Enterprise, just to name a few.
Prior to establishing GAC, Patrice worked for more than 12 years as an engineer, manager, and leader at DuPont, a science and technology company. Patrice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Engineering from Lehigh University and an Automotive Technology Diploma from Delaware Technical Community College. She is the author of the book, The Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide.
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