Valencia Clay began her journey to becoming an empowerment advocate and entrepreneur as a volunteer for local non-profit organizations across New York including Women In Need Shelter (WIN), Women’s Prison Association (WPA), and Dress for Success (DFS) which all serve to help disadvantaged women. 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. 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.She can be reached at valencia@litesisters.org