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Yolanda Holder is a professional Our Mission:
Endurance Ultra Marathon Walker and We are a nonprofit organization that
a 2-time Guinness World Record holder brings together schools, churches,
for “Most Marathons Completed in a juvenile justice, and human services.
Calendar Year”, finishing a staggering A one- stop resources center in the
106 marathons/ultras in 2010 and state of Maryland and Georgia to
breaking her own record in 2012 help youth develop marketable skills
finishing 120 marathons/ultras.
and overcome stressors in their lives,
Yolanda is the first African American to
such as poverty, discrimination,
Run or Walk over 100 marathons in a
calendar year and the first woman in abusive situations, addictions,
the world to ever do it twice. Yolanda’s accomplishments are unstable homes, and their academic
amazing, at the 2014 Ultra Marathon USA & World Championship lifestyle.
in Anchorage Alaska met her goal of walking 400 miles in the Six
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Day event placing 3 female and 10 overall and a finisher of over We foster a commitment and
seventeen 100 milers. What’s special close to her heart is” promote pro-social friendship, strong
Extreme Walk 4 Diabetes” an annual event she founded in honor interpersonal skills, and to reassert a
of her parents. Losing both parents to this horrible disease has sense of hope in the future. 2Youth
made a profound impact on Yolanda’s life, as he walks with
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experience and speaks m the heart. Her purpose in life is to programs contribute a positive
inspire and motivate everyone to take care of their health by
change through goal setting, self-
walking 30 minutes a day every day.
discipline, and skill development.
Yolanda is also a devoted wife, mother of two grown children,
motivational speaker and author.

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