Yilitha Semons, M.B.A, B.S, A.A, CLC
Yilitha Semons, born in 1980, native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin knew early on that she had a passion for the community with a spirit of goodwill to help others. She is the oldest of two of her mother’s children, and the eldest of six of her father’s children. She received her early education at St. Thomas Aquinas Grade School, on 35th & Brown Street, through the Milwaukee Parental Choice program for low income families in the inner City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Where she graduated with honors in 1994. She went on to graduate in 1997, at the age of 17, from John Marshall High School, a Milwaukee Public School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was raised and spent much of her youth in the inner City of Milwaukee growing up on 38th & Galena/Cherry Street community. She is no stranger to the struggle and the strife of growing up black with minimal resources available but making do with what you have from day to day. However, she refused to let that deter her from working hard to accomplish great things in life.
After high school, She worked full-time to gain real-life experience and took part-time courses at MATC, a junior college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is at junior college that she realized her creative side and began to write poetry. She depicted life experiences growing up in an urban community. Her first book entitled, "Black Jewell: Poetic" was written in the early 2000’s, along with the short story novel “The Guardian Fruit Fly." She held on to her writings for the right opportunity to publish. She continued working accounting jobs along with her studies. She graduated MATC in 2005 with her Associates in Liberal Arts, Bachelor’s in Business Management in 2008 and a Master’s in Business Administration in 2010 both from Cardinal Stritch University’s accelerated program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also began her accounting career with Milwaukee Government (2005-2019) during her college years. She went on to take a part time career as an adjunct instructor at Marian University (2015-2018) to teach adult learners how to achieve their goals in the business world on an as needed basis. https://my.marianuniversity.edu/OfficesAndServices/AcademicTechnology/Documents/MO2%20Certified%20Instructors.htm {1}.
She self-publish two poetry books, in 2014, so that others could be inspired by “words in motion”. She later went on to eventually publish three more books https://www.amazon.com/Yilitha-Semons/e/B00N89GBHG {2}. Which all are now also available in audiobooks at audible.com. She believes that if at least one of her writings could encourage just one young woman to follow her dreams, it was worth telling about life as she had saw it growing up and evolving into a professional and spiritually grounded woman from the inner City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Her ambition did not stop there, also in 2014, she started a community outreach initiative to make an impact in the lives of individuals in need in the community, the nonprofit organization, called “L.E.L.E Life Coaching Initiatives Inc. https://apps.dfi.wi.gov/apps/corpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=L054170&hash=1936153063&searchFunctionID=0aab08c7-02d0-4b96-8436-7d31ebfc3dd7&type=Simple&q=LeLe {3). The focus of the organization is to help community improvement through providing essential resources. It is her belief that one helping hand is better than none at all. Although the nonprofit organization is small the mission is big at heart: “to offer quality resource services to enrich the lives and personal skills of individuals in need in the community" http://www.lelelifecoachinginitiatives.com/ {4}.
Today she is a certified life coach, providing personal care for the homeless delivering care baskets to local area shelters, sponsoring community hygiene drives to provide hygiene care products to the homeless at the local area shelters and providing life coaching tools. She is a believer that it is not how you begin this journey in life but how you end it and that God is in control of all things. Her work continues to grow in the community to promote the personal development of under-served individuals. So that the less fortunate individuals in the community are not forgotten but embraced in our day to day living.
References:
1. Marian University: https://my.marianuniversity.edu/OfficesAndServices/AcademicTechnology/Documents/MO2%20Certified%20Instructors.htm
3. Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Corporation: https://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=L054170&hash=1936153063&searchFunctionID=2bfbf2a2-8d4e-423f-bb3c-8007c36ec0ba&type=Simple&q=lele
4. L.E.L.E L Ife Coaching Initiatives Inc. : http://www.lelelifecoachinginitiatives.com/
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