Love for Her Sistas: Poems to Uplift, Empower & Inspire Women (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692943205)

Valencia Clay began her journey to becoming an empowerment advocate and entrepreneur as a volunteer for local non-profit organizations across New York which all serve to help disadvantaged women. Valencia is currently an Executive Assistant at Bank in New York City who spends her spare time volunteering in her community as her way of giving back. In 2015, Valencia received the "Volunteer of the Year" award from Dress for Success for her dedication. She has written several inspirational articles published on self-help websites including E-Zine and Self-Growth. Valencia founded Ladies Inspired to Empower (L.I.T.E.), a non-profit organization focused on women's empowerment in 2014. L.I.T.E. routinely hosts free self-improvement workshops to help women and children in need overcome their individual challenges in order to live happy, healthy, and productive lives. In 2016, Valencia founded her own publishing company, V.L.C. House of Self-Help LLC. Her first book of quotes titled Valencia's Book of Quotes and autobiography titled All By Myself, will be published in 2017. She is also the host of several YouTube videos which focus on self-improvement including Problem Child within Us, Subjective & Objective Thinking, and Belief Systems. With her passion, persistence and endurance deeply rooted in empowering all women, Valencia intends to make L.I.T.E one of the most influential women's empowerment organizations across the world. Valencia holds a bachelor's degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.