USWNT soccer star Alex Morgan has launched her own foundation to promote sports equity, empower girls and support mothers in San Diego’s South Bay.
, grew up on both sides of the Mexican border, so the trade marked a homecoming for both.
The foundation, she said, is built around three “core areas of impact”: sports equity, empowering girls and supporting mothers, all areas with which the outspoken Morgan, who helped lead the, is familiar. Among the foundation’s first initiatives will be raising funds to invest in field and sports expansion.
“Support of Mom was incredibly important to me,” Morgan said. “Navigating motherhood and the workplace was incredibly challenging, and so many moms do it with so much grace. They do it with all the troubles behind closed doors. They don’t share those. So I want to create a community where we can share any troubles and help moms embrace the challenges and be able to navigate it in a lot better way.
In her meeting with the students on her final stop, Morgan sat next to Inzunza, a bouquet of wildflowers in a vase between them, at the top of a circle with the girls, dressed in blue Alex Morgan Foundation T-shirts, before them.
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