Who they are:

Founder Serene Singh, a Rhodes Scholar and former Miss Colorado Teen, created The Serenity Project after seeing the effects of unhealthy beauty ideals through her pageantry and modeling experience. She created this non-profit to give tools to at-risk women after losing a best friend to suicide. While working in the US Senate on violence, trafficking, and rape policies she noticed womxn survivors were never in-charge of the settings where changes impacting survivors were created. Serene dreamt of empowering survivors to dream again. Transforming pain into power has been Serene’s mission with The Serenity Project since its start.

Vision/Mission:

The Serenity Project aims to empower resilient womxn who have persevered through life’s greatest hurdles by challenging unhealthy beauty standards, the rising number of suicide attempts, and the lack of support, tools, and skills survivors receive to grow through trauma they have gone through.

What they do:

The Serenity Project journey starts with a kick-off fashion show aimed at challenging our society’s notion of “beauty,” celebrating these womxn in the project to step out of their comfort zones and connect with their limitless potential, and inspire all womxn to persevere and find strength in celebration and community.

The Soaring Curriculum is a 12-chapter year-long curriculum aiming to support the womxn in their personal and professional development through challenges, projects, weekly exercises, inspiring womxn speakers, readings, and much more. The curriculum runs alongside The Serenity Project Mentorship program from the start of February, one week before the fashion show, for approximately one year. Some examples of themes for chapters are self-image, independent exploration, professional development, and impactful storytelling.

The curriculum name, Soaring, comes from the idea that the womxn are much like butterflies, taking their wings and soaring to new heights. Ultimately it serves to continue their growth in being brave enough to fly.

Participants are paired with amazing mentors to create their projects. The Serenity Project womxn have developed projects for many causes including acid-attack victims, PTSD survivors, and anti-bullying groups – paying their experiences forward to empower other womxn!

What you can do to help:

• Donate
• Become a participant!
• Become a mentor, which is a 12-month commitment
• Volunteer- recruiting, creating curriculum, speaking at one of the many workshops offered