Promise was only six months old when her mother’s boyfriend threatened to kill her. Promise’s grandmother, L.Y. Marlow, decided that enough was enough; soon after, she walked away from a 20+ year corporate career to found Saving Promise:

“I was the third generation of women in my family to be trapped in the never-ending cycle of violence. Twenty-two years later, my daughter became the fourth when her boyfriend tried to kill her and threatened the life of their baby girl, Promise. I decided right then and there, I would not let Promise be the fifth.”

L.Y. vowed to not only end the cycle of violence in her own family, but to make a promise for change at a broader scale.