Author, advocate, and media personality Tavis Smiley founded the Tavis Smiley Foundation in 1999 after granting a request from a single mother to have her son shadow him for a week. The experience proved to be so positive for Tavis he recognized a need for a leadership program that would inspire and impact hundreds of youth.
The result was Youth to Leaders - a program that would identify teens with great potential and provide training to help them develop into leaders.
To date more than 6,000 teens, ages 13-18, have participated in our leadership conferences, workshops and lectures series.
(read less)Author, advocate, and media personality Tavis Smiley founded the Tavis Smiley Foundation in 1999 after granting a request from a single mother to have her son shadow him for a week. The experience proved to be so positive for Tavis he recognized a need for a leadership program that would inspire and impact hundreds of youth.
The result was Youth to Leaders - a program that would identify teens with great potential and provide training to help them develop into leaders.
To date more than 6,000...
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