The Love and Legacy Project is pleased to announce its 2018-19 Board of Directors. Founded in 2017, the Love and Legacy Project is committed to preserving the legacies of mothers, fathers, and their children through the gift of high-quality imagery and art. 

The mission of the Love and Legacy Project is to support families experiencing medical or socioeconomic hardships by providing complimentary maternity, newborn, and family photography sessions. The nonprofit organization has partnered with community organizations including the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire, the Pregnancy Care Centers of both Richmond Hill and Rincon, Family Promise of Greater Savannah, and New Life Church of Richmond Hill.

Megan Myrick founded the Love and Legacy Project in 2017 and currently serves as Board President. She has been a professional portrait photographer since 2011. Specializing in maternity, newborn, child, and family portraiture, she has won multiple local and international awards for her work. In 1999, Megan graduated college with a double major in Elementary Education and Theater Performance and spent the next 12 years teaching 1st grade and Preschool students. She currently resides in Richmond Hill, GA with her retired Army officer husband and two young sons. 

Jennifer Strouss, who will serve as Vice President, currently lives in Richmond Hill, Georgia with her husband of 20 years and is originally from Michigan. She is currently the General Manager of Ulta Beauty in Savannah, Georgia. Jenn has been in retail management, marketing and merchandising for 20 years. She is delighted to be a board member for the Love and Legacy Project.

Wendy Woods is honored to take on the role of Secretary for the Love and Legacy Project. Woods currently lives in Richmond Hill, Georgia with her husband and daughter. Originally from Vidalia, Georgia, Wendy has spent over 15 years serving alongside her husband in full-time ministry, mainly working with youth and children. During this time, she helped build a student ministry from less than 10 middle and high school students to over 150 students, led groups of students on statewide and international mission trips, and helped lead adult and student volunteer teams. Within the last few years, Wendy decided to utilize her passion to invest in and care for children as a stay at home childcare provider. In this role, she assists in the development of children by providing a life-giving environment where they can begin the process of growing into their full potential.

Bryan M. Menees is pleased to join the board as Treasurer. As VP of Dealer Program, has worked for 20 years in Home Security and is a trusted leader in the alarm industry who has spent 2 decades recruiting, training and exponentially growing home security companies.  In 1998, after graduating from the University of South Carolina, he learned outside sales as one of the top 10 sales reps in the country for Westec Security.  In 2007, while living in Charleston, SC, Bryan began a massively successful 10-year history working for PHT, a 5-star national alarm company, and advanced from branch manager to VP of Sales.  In 2017, Bryan began his entrepreneurial calling by founding, as CEO, 361 Technologies LLC and in 2018, Bryan will soon be announcing the expansion of his businesses by creating an upstart Outside Sales coaching company. Bryan continues to work with PHT as a sales executive and national recruiter in addition to building his new businesses.  Bryan and his family live in beautiful Savannah, GA, and are involved in a number of local organizations.

Lesley Francis is pleased to serve Marketing Director for the Love & Legacy Project. As Founder and CEO of Lesley Francis PR, she has worked for 30 years in public relations – over 20 of these in the consumer products and healthcare sectors in London. In 1998, she founded a one-person, London-based agency that ultimately became the 14th largest in the UK. She sold it to a global media group in 2007. After running the group’s global PR division, she relocated to Savannah, Georgia and became a naturalized American citizen in 2012.  Lesley set up LFPR in 2011, and the agency has grown every year through its “can-do” attitude and the staff’s ability to design and execute integrated campaigns that target the right audiences and key influencers.  Lesley is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill and has served on the boards of the Savannah Book Festival, Ariel Southeast Angels Partners, and the Bryan County Bark Park.