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 through the Archdiocese of Wisconsin Catholic School System at St. Thomas Aquinas in the inner City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin graduating with honors in 1994. She went on to graduate at the age of 17 years old from Milwaukee Public Schools at John Marshall High school in 1997.

However she chose not to pursue college immediately but to work full-time to gain real-life experience and take 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 career with Milwaukee Government (2005-Present) during her college years. 

In 2014, she took on a second part time career as an adjunct instructor at Marian Universityto 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}. 

Also in 2014, while sitting in her living room the same year, she came up with an insight to self-publish her own two novels 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}. 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://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=L054170&hash=1936153063&searchFunctionID=2bfbf2a2-8d4e-423f-bb3c-8007c36ec0ba&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}. 

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4. L.E.L.E L Ife Coaching Initiatives Inc. Website: http://www.lelelifecoachinginitiatives.com/

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