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Giving Back: Extending Corporate Values into Your Community
While the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility galvanized the business world years ago, companies and organizations continue to voluntarily increase the steps they take to improve the quality of life for their communities and society at large. Employees play a key role in community-based initiatives, but more importantly have an innate desire to be part of something bigger than themselves. Liz Murray’s inspirational story challenges the audience to recognize the opportunity we each have to make a lasting contribution on another person’s life. Employees will find themselves re-charged and ready to step-up as community leaders.
From 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.
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Liz Murray’s story – from homelessness to Harvard – amazes audience and will inspire your team to new heights
Few speakers match the inspirational power of LIZ MURRAY – who has received only the highest praise for her sought-after events. The story Liz shares is captivating; her journey from homelessness in her teens to attending one of the world’s most prestigious universities is a message of perseverance and possibility. Now a poverty awareness advocate and advocate for underserved youth, Liz earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard. Liz authored her bestselling memoir, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, which was immediately made into a film – Homeless to Harvard – and was nominated for three Emmy Awards. For groups looking for a speaker who will inspire your team to new heights, no matter the goal or challenge at hand, Liz and her story deliver results.
Liz is now the co-founder of The Arthur Project – working to redefine youth mentoring to expand the power of relationships in a child’s life. Liz’s work, her tenacity, and her message of possibility resonate with audiences of all kinds, from the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors to Microsoft, from the National Association of Women Lawyers to West Texas A&M University. The comments Liz receives for each engagement speak for themselves:
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The child of drug-addicted parents who routinely ate from dumpsters and sought refuge at all-night subway stations to survive, Liz Murray was homeless at age 15—and fending for her life. Determined not to be defined by her circumstances, she recognized education as the key to a fresh beginning and a whole new way of living. She earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak circumstances into a future filled with limitless possibility. 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. She is the author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, which became the film Homeless to Harvard and was nominated for three Emmy Awards. 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 under served youth, working to end generational poverty through relationship-based learning.
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