Our Commitment: Honoring The Life and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Project Legacy believed in me until I started to believe in myself. They picked me up every time I fell, until finally I could stand on my own.”

Project Legacy began as an empowerment program for girls. 

We started as an after school program, welcoming young girls as a place for safety and support. At the time, two of our first participants were just nine and ten years old. 

Today, those two girls are a junior and senior in college, now both employed by Project Legacy. 

While our programs have expanded since that time, 13 years later, our commitment to young women and girls has only grown. Today, we welcome women and girls who are dreamers, refugees, ADOS; those who are sex workers and those who have been trafficked and exploited; girls who have experienced eating disorders, substance use disorder, hunger, poverty, homelessness and abuse. 

We welcome them here every day and embrace them with the message of love and hope. Here, they find a community of safety and refuge, where their inherent dignity and worth is seen, valued and respected. 

At our core, Project Legacy is here to empower, provide opportunities, and assist in removing barriers our youth face. But it is our young people who do the hardest work of changing their lives and legacies, as we simply provide the support and community to walk alongside them.

Today, as we mourn the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I am renewed and recharged by the strength of her legacy. I am enraged at the barriers placed in front of Project Legacy, those put in front of our courageous young women, and even those I have experienced personally as a female leader. 

I remain inspired to witness the young women of Project Legacy, along with my own daughters, and all they are accomplishing in their lives and communities. I am so incredibly proud of the young women they have become and their powerful contributions to the world. 

I am committed to continue walking alongside young girls in the fight for equality, standing and fighting with them every step of the way. 

Today we mourn, tomorrow we fight. 
For gender equality.
For justice. 
For safety.
For our futures.

"Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation." -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Please join and support Project Legacy as we continue bringing up the next generation in the way of justice, love, safety and peace.