Join us for another episode of SheBoss, as we chat with a 3-time Emmy award-winning journalist and CEO & founder of Kids to Love, Lee Marshall.
Lee is answering her God-given call to be a voice for children who wait! Born into foster care, and adopted at the age of 2, Lee knows first hand the difference a forever family can make. Through her Kids to Love Foundation, she is carrying out her purpose to find families for foster children and meeting their immediate needs while they wait to be adopted. Since Lee founded Kids to Love in 2004, the foundation has impacted the lives of more than 265,000 foster children.
Lee is a 3-time Emmy award-winning journalist. After 20 years in TV News, she signed off from the anchor desk in 2015 to launch her dream of the Kids to Love Center. Just like Lee, Kids to Love also got its start in television. Lee presents a weekly segment that aims to recruit “Forever Families.” Each week, Lee introduces a new child waiting in foster care to prospective families across the Tennessee Valley and to her more than 95,000 followers on social media. She has helped find permanent homes for more than 200 children through her weekly segment.
Lee’s vision and heart, especially for teen-age foster children who will age out of care, compelled her to dream big, and in March 2015 she launched the Kids to Love Center. The center is home to KTECH, a workforce training site for young adults, focusing on those in foster care, vets needing a skill set to reenter the workforce, and others who are underserved through traditional constraints of education. Launched in 2016, KTECH has awarded more than 100 certifications. In 16 weeks KTECH students earn 4 industry-recognized certifications to meet the increasing demands of our manufacturing rich community.
To learn more about Lee and Kids to Love, you can visit them online at https://www.kidstolove.org/
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