Speakers

L.Y. Marlowe
Author

Color Me Butterfly (Arlington, VA)

L.Y. Marlow is the third generation of her family to have been a victim and survivor of domestic violence: a violence that almost took her own life and the life of her unborn child. In her award-winning book Color Me Butterfly, she tells the story of four generations of mothers and daughters – the true story of her grandmother, her mother, herself, and her daughter – and the toll intergenerational domestic violence and abuse has had on her family for over sixty years. She founded the Saving Promise Campaign, a national grassroots domestic violence movement to put domestic violence awareness on the national agenda in the same way breast cancer awareness has been made a national priority. Realizing the challenges ahead, Ms. Marlow plans to engage and cultivate the support of millions—from domestic violence agencies, public, private and corporate entities, faith-based institutions, communities and individuals to join the Promise for Change.