Carla Alonzo is a bilingual speaker and youth advocate who empowers girls, families, and school communities to bridge the Belonging Gap by building confidence, fostering cultural awareness, and developing bold leadership rooted in connection and purpose.
A WIDENING BELONGING GAP
Carla bridges that gap creating spaces where every voice matters, every story is honored, and every student is empowered to rise.
Students are showing up in classrooms but still feel unseen, unheard, and unsure of where they fit.
Educators are exhausted — not just from workload, but from trying to reach students who are emotionally checked out.
Parents feel disconnected, unsure how to support their child in a meaningful way.
Girls, are shrinking themselves to survive in environments where confidence isn’t cultivated and leadership isn’t modeled.
Lack a shared sense of purpose and connection, school culture suffers — and potential gets lost in the cracks.
THE MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
You Have Been Waiting On
CARLA IS DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT
Her Work
Carla’s motivational keynotes and interactive workshops offer real, relatable, and practical strategies to bridge the Belonging Gap. Whether speaking to educators, parents, or students, she provides tools to:
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Build stronger school-home partnerships
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Foster emotional safety in classrooms
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Equip girls with confidence and leadership
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Engage families across cultural and linguistic lines
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Each session is packed with storytelling, strategy, and cultural insight—leaving every audience inspired to lead change from the inside out.
Keynote Speeches
Interactive Workshops
Student Development
Consulting
Carla connects with parents on a deeper level — especially those navigating the challenges of raising confident daughters in a world full of mixed messages and cultural expectations. Drawing from her own story of overcoming self-doubt, silence, and generational patterns, Carla empowers parents to build stronger bonds, model bold leadership, and nurture identity from the inside out. Her message is one of hope and action, offering practical tools to strengthen communication, set healthy boundaries, and raise daughters who feel seen, supported, and secure. With a heart for healing and a gift for truth-telling, Carla helps families move from survival mode to intentional connection — where confidence, purpose, and belonging can grow.
Bold & Beautiful Curriculum
practical tools to build confidence, set healthy boundaries, and overcome self-doubt, equipping them to step into their full potential.
Bold & Beautiful is more than a curriculum — it’s a transformative journey designed to help teen girls rise with purpose, confidence, and identity.
Through real conversations, culturally relevant lessons, and empowering community activities, girls learn to:
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Own their story
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Build healthy boundaries
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Lead with boldness and empathy
It’s not just about self-esteem — it’s about raising a generation of confident, connected young women who know they belong.
MEET CARLA ALONZO
Carla believes in the transformative power of belonging — because she’s lived without it, fought to reclaim it, and now helps others build it in their own lives, families, and schools.
Born to Mexican immigrant parents, Carla grew up navigating two cultures — and the silence, shame, and identity questions that often came with it. She knows what it’s like to shrink parts of yourself just to belong, and how easy it is to feel invisible in the very places meant to shape you.
But everything changed when she stopped trying to fit in — and chose to stand in who she was becoming.
Through personal healing, faith, and mentorship, Carla reclaimed her voice and broke generational patterns.
Today, she’s a bilingual speaker and advocate who equips students, parents, and educators to close what she calls the Belonging Gap — the space between who we are and where we feel safe to be fully seen.
Her message of boldness, identity, and connection is helping schools and families create spaces where confidence grows, culture is honored, and everyone belong
It Starts with Bridging Hearts, Homes,
and Hallways