I Choose To Win

✨️It truly takes a village to LET HER! ✨️

To our facilitators, venues, vendors, and community partner: thank you for saying "yes" to the LET HER! Mentorship Program.

Thank you for showing up with authenticity, care, and generosity. Because of your contribution, our participants were exposed to new healing tools and modalities, empowered to explore the fullness of their humanity, and reminded they are supported by a community that believes they can and will WIN -- in whatever ways they so choose to define it.

The impact of your work and presence extends far beyond the time we shared, and we are deeply grateful to have had you on this journey with us!

💜Philadelphia Youth Basketball ()
💜Our House Culture Center ()
💜Black Girls with Green Thumbs ()
💜The Apologues Center ()
💜Gail Jones Art ()
💜Ayiana Viviana ()
💜DVINITI Skin Care ()
💜Second Chance Dance ()

💟 Photography by J. Nicole (.becomes.her)
💟 Catering by Jerk Squad Philly ()
💟 Cupcakes by A.N.Y.A.S ()
💟 Constance Brown-Gainor, Natalie Francis (), and Katie Barnes

And last but not least, thank you to the volunteers; 2025 Bold, Brave & Brilliant Awards Gala donors; supporters; families and each of YOU for being a part of our collective declaration to the world to LET HER!

UP NEXT: Tomorrow, our FINAL (🥲) LET HER! Mentorship Program session will be facilitated by Second Chance Dance, Philadelphia's first adult-only dance school.

This session will empower us to explore how moving energy through the body supports our emotional processing -- especially that of heavier ones such as grief.

At , they're on a mission to cultivate confidence, joy, and a renewed sense of possibility. With the private Culminating Celebration for LET HER! on the horizon, this is precisely the energy we desire to cultivate within our mentees and mentors as the program comes to a close, and their healing journey continues.

👀Can we share one of our favorite parts about this session? Alyssa Bowser, owner of SCD, is a beloved honoree of our 2024 Bold, Brave & Brilliant Awards Gala! We're thrilled to continue celebrating and supporting our honorees and their wins, and look forward to this shared one with the SCD team.

💜Thank you, Alyssa and team, for showing us how embodied expression, creativity, and physical movement all play important roles in our emotional healing from gun violence!
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UP NEXT: This weekend, our sixth LET HER! Mentorship Program session will be facilitated by Marquita Robinson Garcia, a cosmetic chemist and owner of DVINITI Skin Care (), a plant-based, naturally derived skin care and spa company.

This session will empower us to nourish and love the glow of our skin AND our soul!

Marquita, known as Philly's 'Mad Scientist Gone Good,' uses her extensive experience from the beauty industry to bring personalized, sustainable skin care to the mainstream.

Simply put, she's on a mission to help us learn to love our skin by emphasizing the ‘care’ in ‘skincare’ and leading us through the process.

"I chose the name 'DVINITI' to remind customers that despite how the media may have influenced their self-image, each of us is already beautiful (or handsome!)" she says. "Your skin is your body’s largest organ, functioning as a defense mechanism to preserve and protect you from the external environment," she says.

Through Marquita's science and beauty-based teaching, we'll strengthen the connection between our inner and outer beauty. In addition to facial mapping and a skin analysis, we'll "Make 'n Take" custom blended products selected and curated in-studio.

💜Thank you, Marquita, for showing us how deeply connected and powerful our inner and outer illumination is, even as we heal from gun violence!⁠
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