Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast has partnered with Saving our Daughters to bring the Cinderella Celebrity Book Club to youth across the MS Gulf Coast. Academic success and literacy is a priority at BGCGC, and through this program young girls are able to find hope and build relationships while improving their reading skills.

Saving Our Daughters, co-founded by actress Keke Palmer, works with girls from multicultural backgrounds through theater, film, culinary and literacy, to help them to overcome the many obstacles they face growing up: bullying (cyber, gossip, face-to-face), dating abuse, domestic violence and other esteem slayers. Saving Our Daughters creates the tools to get teen girls fired up to take the power away from negative issues of bullying, as celebrity supported art programs, educate girls beyond the borders of a traditional classroom.

The objective of The Saving Our Cinderellas Celebrity Book Club Initiative is to promote self-esteem and awareness through book club readings with “Celebrity Godparent”, mentors within the Saving Our Daughters’ Cinderella’s curriculum, to encourage at-risk elementary, middle and high school girl students who are interested in the arts to deter bullying, date abuse and domestic violence.

Nia Holloway Skype Call - October 2019

In 2013, Nia was cast as in the principle role of “Nala” in the North American Tour of Disney’s the Lion King Broadway. At 17 years old, she became the youngest actress ever to ever nab the role. Since 2013 Nia has traveled North America and Canada with the Gazelle and Rafiki tours of the Lion King. Over the last five years, Nia has garnered rave reviews from theater critics, publications across the nation, and fans.