Embrace Her Legacy works closely with NYC non-profit organization, Building Young Minds, in creating programs that will educate young women on how to embrace their legacy and empower them with the knowledge needed to develop self-esteem and self-awareness. Here are some images from our previous programs.
Our founder Maria I. Melendez talk about what makes her an empowered woman. Thanks to Overture for providing this incredible video.
What do you think makes you an empowered woman? Let us know in the comments below!
Watch our exclusive footage from our “Igniting Your Legacy” event with guest-speaker, Gilt Groupe executive and marketing extraordinaire, Rashana Hooks.
Another SUCCESSFUL Embrace Her Community event! If you didn’t know, Embrace Her Legacy was a proud media supporter of the Komen NYC Race for the Cure and their launch week City in Pink which both raise breast cancer awareness. Did you know the 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime? As supporters of this incredible cause we lit our website in pink and hosted a volunteer team on the day of the NYC race on Sept 8th, 2013. We’re looking forward to next year and those Embrace Her Legacy t-shirts you see are coming soon 🙂
If you want to know what we do…simply put we inspire women and girls to live purpose-driven lives with an intention of the legacy they want to leave. We are here to promote women and girls being confident, fearless, secure and whole with a future so bright that it scares her! Watch our world because Embrace Her Legacy is here and we are NOT looking back!
Who We Are
Embrace Her Legacy is company that offers media, events, community and social initiatives designed to help women and girls intentionally build a purpose-driven legacy.
What We Do
We propel women and girls to live in their purpose with passion and define the legacy they will leave behind. In a time when technology allows us to constantly connect and communicate globally, it is increasingly important to be conscious of the imprint we make on the world. Since inception in 2012, we have serviced hundreds of women and girls throughout New York City and around the country. We evoke feminine confidence through engaging media developed to educate and inspire, tailored events, uplifting community efforts and an advisory board of established and empowered women who are embracing their legacies and share their secrets of success through the Embrace Her Legacy Assembly.
10 years ago, I entered a program at Hofstra University that pretty much changed my life. It’s called the New Opportunities at Hofstra, otherwise known as the NOAH program which is part the Higher Educational Opportunities Program in New York state universities. The program awards a 5-year scholarship to a select group of students from New York at Hofstra University. Each freshman class has to participate in a unprecedented summer program that we like to compare to an “academic boot camp” while learning about the empowering history of African-American and Latino cultures. The students learn what it means to strive towards excellence while creating a camaraderie (which is more like a family) of NOAH brothers and sisters. When I went through my summer program, I left empowered and proud to be a Afro-Latina woman. I learned more about my history in those 6-weeks than I did in my entire 12 years of education prior. The program prepares the students with the regime, study tools, and preparatory skills needed to excel on the Hofstra campus…and as a proud graduate, that is exactly what I did!
So once I got invited to speak to the freshmen class, I JUMPED at the opportunity. These students need to be heard and molded to be tomorrow’s leaders just as much as any other group of college freshmen. It was a pleasure to speak to them, to inspire and to let them know that 10 years ago I was in their very shoes and 10 years later I stand in front of them as an example of the possible! Talk about embracing my legacy!
