Evening of Empowerment 2023 with Liz Murray: Homeless to Harvard

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                                    with Keynote Speaker Liz Murray

Join us for a celebration of empowerment and inspiration! The Evening of Empowerment brings together 200+ and always offers a takeaway to immediately help you develop professionally and personally. Join us to meet Liz Murray, who will share a story of empowerment and inspiration like you've never heard before. 

Also joining us on the ATHENA Enlightenment Tour is President & CEO of ATHENA International, Traci Costa, who is traveling the country meeting with local ATHENA chapters to interview ATHENA recipients and learn about our communities. She will also be sharing news about ATHENA International's upcoming programs.

The 2023 Evening of Empowerment will also be empowering all women to attend the event, breaking down the barriers preventing them from joining. Consider "Paying It Forward" by purchasing a ticket that will be donated to a woman to attend. 

Homeless to Harvard
A story so powerful it was made into a movie, Liz Murray shares her fascinating, inspirational story of growing up with two drug addicted parents who she began supporting at age 10. Homeless at age 15, the death of her mother was the wake-up call that made her break free of her circumstances and pursue a different path for her life. While living on the streets of New York, she completed and graduated from high school in just two years. Overcoming horrible odds, she won a full scholarship and was accepted to Harvard University. Murray offers one of the most moving, elegant and uplifting tales you will ever hear.


About Liz Murray
With sincerity, maturity and graciousness, Murray takes audiences along on her personal journey from street smarts to classroom triumphs, instantly becoming an inspiration to both student groups and business audiences alike in need of the motivation to overcome their own obstacles. The subject of Lifetime Television's Emmy-nominated original film, Homeless to Harvard, Murray graduated from Harvard in 2009, and went on to receive her Masters in the Psychology of Education at Columbia University. Today, as Co-Founder of The Arthur Project, Murray is a passionate advocate for underserved youth, working to end generational poverty through relationship-based learning.

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***Photos from 2022 courtesy of Zerbe Photography