Meet one of the Co-founder Galaxy's Stars
CLEMMIE GREENLEE
Co-Founder and Community Activist
Clemmie Greenlee was born and raised in Nashville. She grew up in several low-income neighborhoods and often times found it hard to rely on her parents as an adolescent. Being the second eldest of 7 siblings, Ms. Greenlee, felt that she had to take care of her younger siblings. At a young age she turned to the streets to make fast money to help take care of her family. While immersed in the world of the street life that included drugs and violence, Ms. Greenlee became pregnant at a young age. She then dropped out of school, and barely survived a life threatening injury of a stab wound that landed just 3 inches from her lungs.
In 2000, Clemmie Greenlee finally came to the realization that a change needed to take place. She turned her life over to God and began to live the best days of her life. She entered the Magdalene Recovery Program and graduated in 2003. She began to dedicate her life to helping to save the lives of those whom she saw on the same path of destruction she had already traveled. Unfortunately, her one and only son was on that same path, and every day she pleaded with him to turn away from the street life. Ms. Greenlee's son was murdered in 2003.
Over the last few years Ms. Greenlee has helped start and run a true "fishes and loaves" program called Galaxy Star Drug Awareness. Funded by true grassroots efforts of those who believe in the program Galaxy Star provided (insert information about homeless outreach, and transition back into the youth/young adults). After experiencing youth violence hitting so close to home, Ms. Greenlee has made a vow to touch the lives of as many adolescents as she can as she witnesses today’s youth travel the same path of destruction that took her son’s life.