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About Us

"Women have the power to sculpt minds, fight wars, soothe hearts, and change lives."

- Mary Burse-Wright

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Founded in 2019, from a conversation sparked between a granddaughter, daughter, and mother, whose health was slowly declining due to dementia, SHEpowHERs was birthed in legacy. Mary Burse-Wright had envisioned every woman, from a very young age through their golden years, knowing their worth and understanding their power.  As the matriarch of five generations of women,  Mary, an empowered woman, wanted to ensure that as her mind and body failed her, she left a legacy of strength, kindness, love, and empowerment for her five daughters, fifteen granddaughters, twenty-three great-granddaughters, and four great-great-granddaughters. 

 

Being a professed community servant and a foster mother of hundreds of children in her lifetime, Mary saw a need to empower young women with tools to help them become the best version of themselves and to foster feelings of accomplishment and self-care in older women. In 2020 as dementia took its toll on her body, she tasked her second oldest granddaughter, the one she considered most like her, to keep her legacy going. Her granddaughter, Sheena Adams-Avery, co-founder and CEO, very much like her grandmother having a heart for women began to create opportunities and groups that helped teens and young adults. However, she noticed there was a larger population of women that had yet to walk in their power nor understood their worth. 

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Joining forces with her mother, Debria Leach, a community servant herself, in 2021, to meet this need of empowering women of all ages and all stages of life, the organization was formed. In 2022 articles of incorporation nonprofit and trademark were filed shortly after Mary's transition.

 

Now being a grandmother of two granddaughters, Sheena is even more passionate about conserving her grandmother Mary's legacy of helping women everywhere, especially those in marginalized communities, to claim and reclaim their power...SHEpowHERs.

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We believe all women can embrace who they are,
can define their future, and can change the world.

Our Mission

Our Mission

SHEpowHERs works to uplift and empower women of color, in all stages of life, by providing resources, tools, and support in assisting them to live happy, full, and productive lives. 

 

Empowering HER to be the best SHE can be.

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Our Vision

We aim to provide safe spaces for women to be their authentic selves, to foster self-esteem and promote self-love and self-worth. We remind women every day of their power and seek to provide tools, resources, and life skills to help them  to walk in their purpose. We believe all women can embrace who they are, define their future, and change the world.

Meet our Founders

Three generations of service and empowHERment.

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