
Dorchester, Massachusetts is the largest and most diverse neighborhood of Boston. Our BGCD partners there serve the local community with 3 clubhouses and over 200 groups and activities with children ages 5-18.
Today in Hope's featured video, you get to meet Nayeliz, one of our young developing leaders.
Watch as Nayeliz explains how she was drawn to our Conflict Resolution program. Our promise was to help her use an innate ability to create art to drive her leadership development.
Nayeliz enjoys drawing and expressing herself visually. You can see it in her energy, and in her presentation style that naturally emanates from her love of the visual. For Nayeliz, self-expression is the core of being a leader. It is what drives her interest in style and fashion, and also her confidence and self esteem.
Self expression through art is the leadership skill she feels she most possesses.
“I can really express myself,” she says. “That’s how I’m a leader.”