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    • Home
    • Real Talk about Grief
      • Grieving a Spouse
      • LGBTQ+ Grieving Spouse
      • Grieving Parent Loss
      • Parents Grieving Children
      • Sibling/Best Friend Loss
      • Share your Story of Grief
    • Meet Others like You
    • About & Team
    • Blog
    • Contact
    • Donate
  • Home
  • Real Talk about Grief
    • Grieving a Spouse
    • LGBTQ+ Grieving Spouse
    • Grieving Parent Loss
    • Parents Grieving Children
    • Sibling/Best Friend Loss
    • Share your Story of Grief
  • Meet Others like You
  • About & Team
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Donate

About Empower Change

Our Mission

Our Mission

Our Mission

 

To empower people to learn how to deal with grief constructively, build a community to mitigate  isolation and provide the inspiration and tools people need to transcend their grief and realize their amazing potential. 

Our Programs

Our Mission

Our Mission

We are creating an online forum where people share their real, raw and relavant experiences with grief in video, written and audio formats. 


We're also creating a community of help, hope and healing  to connect those grieving. 

Our Impact

Our Mission

Our Impact

Our program is built on proven science that shows that people learn best from someone ahead of them on their jounrney.  By creating a peer-to-peer model that complements therapy and other existing grief programs, we have established a unique niche  providing a direct, personal and powerful impact. 

A Unique Comination of Entrepreneurs and Non-Profit Innovators

Our team brings a rich diversity of experiences building for-profit and non-profit organizations, from idea through scale. We know how to turn innovative ideas into actionable impact. Members of our team have launched products for Microsoft, raised $50 million to scale grief-related nonprofits, are award-winning creative professionals, but most important, relentlessly and passionately dedicated to providing support to those grieving, with love and open hearts, and without judgement. 

Team

Roderick Alemania

Roderick Alemania

Roderick Alemania

Co-Founder & CEO

Jeff Kimball

Roderick Alemania

Roderick Alemania

Co-Founder & Chief Program Officer

Jen Shelby

Roderick Alemania

Jennifer Cochran

Marketing

Jennifer Cochran

Jennifer Cochran

Jennifer Cochran

Business Development

Shlomi Ronen

Jennifer Cochran

Mannie Rabara

CTO

Mannie Rabara

Jennifer Cochran

Mannie Rabara

Creative Director

BoarD

Kathryn Shirley

Kathryn Shirley

Kathryn Shirley

Eric Solomon

Kathryn Shirley

Kathryn Shirley

Advisors

Hilary Wolfe

Ann Marie Giusto

Jennifer McLean

Jennifer McLean

Ann Marie Giusto

Jennifer McLean

Ann Marie Giusto

Ann Marie Giusto

Ann Marie Giusto

Karl Wagner

Lindsay Marcus

Ann Marie Giusto

Lindsay Marcus

Lindsay Marcus

Lindsay Marcus

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