IN THE PRESS
PAST AND CURRENT CLIENTS
Awards
QUEENS IMPACT AWARDS
Ridgewood native Carmin Caterina has been a champion of empowering young women in the borough since 2015, working with girls in the school system through her organization, Lessons For My Daughters.
Caterina, a speech-language pathologist, has worked with inner-city children in the public school system and was inspired to start the organization after spending a year home-schooling her two daughters.
Caterina teaches the girls in her program habits for keeping a positive mindset and has been gaining traction with elected officials who have been supportive. She recently started a partnership with Ridgewood Savings Bank with the ultimate goal of bringing the benefits of her program to the community she grew up in, particularly her alma mater, Grover Cleveland High School. Ridgewood Savings Bank has been an active supporter of Lessons For My Daughters, helping it remain a free service for schools that lack funding to pay for empowerment programs.
“Across the board, all girls have the same universal needs and challenges, some new because of an increasing digital world,” Caterina said. “The program focuses on self-confidence and self-esteem, but also on mindset, giving girls the tools they need to live a happy life: positive decision-making, self-care, things that we don’t talk about enough.”
Caterina’s program is unlike any other, she said, because it teaches girls to think for themselves and give them concrete tools to navigate their adolescence and the challenges that go along with it.
— Mark Hallum
SPEAKING EVENTS
November 29, 2020
Guest Speaker - “Finding Your Way Out Of The Dark” Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon. Watch Recording —>
March 30, 2019
Workshop Facilitator Girlz Talk
October 13, 2018
Malik Melodies Sisterhood - We Lead Empowering Our Girls Conference
June 27, 2018
Graduation Keynote Speaker Grover Cleveland High School
March 2018
International Women's Day Speaker Glendale Kiwanis
March 24, 2018
Workshop Facilitator Girlz Talk
June 26, 2017
Speaker Fordham University Executive Education
March 18, 2017
Workshop Facilitator Girlz Talk
PODCAST INTERVIEWS
April 13, 2021
WOMEN WHO SUCCEED: Helping Girls Find Their Inner Wisdom
December 20, 2020
MIGHTY PARENTING: Real, Raw, Relevant Talk About Raising Teens & Parenting Young Adults
August 29, 2020
SOUL CENTERED MAMA: Uplifting Our Daughters
January 25, 2020
MERRY GO ROUND: A Conversation with Lessons For My Daughters
August 16, 2018
NONPROFIT TANGENT: Nonprofit Stories - NYC and Beyond
Featured in
Dear Gratitude An Anthology
By Chris Palmore
COMMUNITY SERVICE
May 18, 2018
Senior Interview Day
Hillside Arts and Letters Academy
February 28, 2018
Summer Opportunities Fair
The Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology
April 29,2017
Spring Empowerment Conference Girls Inc.
April 27,2017
Career Day Automotive High School
March 22, 2017
Judge Panelist
Build NYC - High School of Innovation in Advertising and Media