Liz Murray
Liz Murray was born in The Bronx, New York, United States on September 23rd, 1980 and is the Self-Help Author. At the age of 43, Liz Murray biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Murray is the co-founder and executive director of a youth mentoring organization called "The Arthur Project," which was named in honor of her first mentor. She also works as an inspirational speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau since 1999. Murray has been a speaker at events alongside Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Dalai Lama. Murray made a speech at the annual conference of the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless at the Yakima Convention Center in 2007. In March 2009, she told her story to 1,400 students at Worcester Technical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. In September 2012, she gave a TED Talk called "For the Love of Possibility" at TedxYouth @San Diego.
Murray served as a co-producer in Lifetime's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003) starring actress Thora Birch. The film chronicled Murray's life story and it received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Television Movie and one for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Murray made a brief cameo appearance in the film as a social worker. Murray's story has also been featured on ABC's 20/20 and she has appeared as a guest on The Ricki Lake Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show. During her appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Murray reflected on what she learned from her parents: "They taught me that resilience is actually flexibility; it taught me that gratitude is knowing everything you have, you could just as easily not have it, and it taught me that the basis of forgiveness is often knowing that things aren’t personal and we all have limitations and people can’t give you what they don’t have."
Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard was published by Hachette Books in 2010. The book landed on The New York Times Best Seller List within a week of its release and became an international bestseller published in twelve countries, in eight languages. The book received favorable reviews from critics, with Kirkus Review calling it an "admirable story of a teen who overcame homelessness through sheer grit and the kindness of friends."
Murray has received numerous accolades and awards, including the White House Project's Role Model Award, Oprah Winfrey’s first-ever Chutzpah Award in 2004 and Alex Award in 2011. Winfrey's Chutzpah Award is given to women, who show boldness and courage, go against the odds and have achieved greatness. In 2008, she received Appalachian Women’s Fund's Women of Vision Award. On May 19, 2013, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of public service and gave the commencement address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.