Liz Murray’s Inspiring Journey From Homeless At The Age Of 15 To Harvard

Liz Murray is the homeless 15-year-old daughter of two loving but drug-addicted parents in New York City. Murray graduated from high school as she lived in the streets and went on to obtain a full scholarship to Harvard University despite tremendous odds. She is now a Harvard graduate, a New York Times Bestselling Author, and the founder and director of Manifest Living, a New York-based firm empowering adults to create the extraordinary in their own lives. Murray’s inspirational narrative was chronicled in Lifetime Television’s original film, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, which received three Emmy nominations. She has spent the last ten years traveling to over a dozen countries, motivating thousands of people as one of the world’s most in-demand inspirational speakers.

Liz has appeared on ABC News 20/20, Good Morning America, the Today Show, and CNN, and has been profiled in The New York Times, among other publications. She has written advice pieces for the New York Times Upfront Magazine and is the author of the New York Times bestseller memoir Breaking Night, which was published in September 2010. She has received the White House Project’s Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, and was one of the first to win Oprah Winfrey’s Chutzpah Award.

She currently resides in New York City and spreads her empowerment work throughout the United States and the world.

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