PhD, surfer, climber, therapist-in-training. Raising my son to dismantle the world that tried to limit the women who built me.
We would like to thank you for supporting Poema Quesado Valente Meyer in this year's competition. Your participation made a huge impact for Children’s Miracle Network® and their mission to provide life-saving care and improve the health of children across the country.
Watching my son unlearn a world that was never built for women like me. I carry the strength of women who survived poverty and were told to be less. I surf, climb, work, and I'm becoming a therapist, not despite motherhood, but alongside it. He sees all of it. And that means he'll never mistake a woman's softness for weakness, or her ambition for a threat.
What is the biggest lesson motherhood has taught you?That love is not passive. My mother climbed out of poverty and refused to let the world define her ceiling, she taught me that. Now I'm teaching my son that strong women aren't the exception, they're the standard. Motherhood didn't soften my edges. It sharpened my purpose.
What would you do with $20,000?Invest it in the work I'm already doing. I'm mid-way through a master's to become a therapist, $20,000 would let me finish without the financial weight that so many first-generation students carry alone. I want to build a practice that serves the communities that are most often priced out of mental health care. This money wouldn't just change my life. It would multiply into every person I sit across from in that room.
Colossal is a nationally registered professional fundraiser that inspires people to advocate for themselves and those in need. Through online competitions like Super Mom, Colossal offers participants the opportunity to make their mark while also making a big impact.
