Yaminah Childress is the Founder and Executive Director of the DREAM It Forward Foundation, a nonprofit who’s mission is to help build a foundation of knowledge, life skills, and cultural awareness to youth in under-served communities through mentoring. Yaminah has always had the strong desire to mentor single mothers and young women, being a young single-mother herself. Now she mentors both male and female youth ages 5-18, and single-mothers ages 25 and younger.
Over the course of her life, Yaminah has earned an Associates Degree in Secondary Education; a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, where she received the highest honor of Summa Cum Laude, and a Juris Doctorate Degree. Yaminah is also a Social Entrepreneur who wears many hats. However, her greatest achievement is being the mother to her three daughters, and son, who she refers to as SC4.
Yaminah Childress
by Milena Fraccari | Nov 26, 2003 | Grant Advisors
TPP Grant Recipient