Author: Ann-Marie Zoë Coore
Bio: Ann-Marie Zoë Coore, a native Jamaican, has over twenty years of experience in international public health and international business. She has worked for organizations and youth programs such as CDC Parent Matters Project, Office of Minority Health, & Integrated Social Solutions/AstraZeneca.  
Ann-Marie is the President and Founder of Coore Foundation, and its subsidiary Girls Right Of Way (GROW) www.girlsrightofway.org and leads the Coore Foundation’s annual “HIV, STD, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Camps” in the Caribbean, the USA, South & Central America, and Africa. 
Ann-Marie also develops, implements, and monitors intervention programs for children in twenty-three countries around the world. These programs include GROW Literacy – reading centers; GROW Sole – providing new and lightly used shoes to those in need and GROW Rhythm – music schools for children in high crime and under-resourced communities.
 
She is Founder and CEO of “GOD-ROCKS Media”, a publishing, production, and promotion company, and “I AM A QUINTESSENTIAL WOMAN”, her company that supports women around the world to move mountains by empowering them  in an atmosphere of caring and mutual respect.  Developing their essential self, while starting, leading, and sustaining their work.