Meet Dr. Carla

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Professional Interests:

I am an educator, activist, girls’ studies researcher, speaker, and professional coach dedicated to inspiring young women and girls to make positive choices in their lives, realize their self-worth and value, and reach their fullest potential. For more than 16 years, I have worked to promote health, social justice, media literacy, HIV prevention, gender-based violence prevention, youth activism, and empowerment among women, youth, girls, communities of color, and their advocates. I offer one-on-one and group coaching, consulting, workshops, keynotes, webinars, teleseminars, and other events.

Through my work, I incorporate many years of research and training with personal experience and powerful coaching tools and strategies to foster self-empowerment and healthy development in girls.

For more information about my work, please read my bio.

Personal Interests:

I am an avid reader and am usually reading five or more books at a time. I also enjoy sewing, knitting/crochet, crafts, stained glass painting, airbrushing, web design, working out, journaling, and entrepreneurship.

Favorite Quotations:

“You must be the change that you want to see in the world.” — Mohandas Gandhi

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” — Marianne Williamson