childrens rights, confidence, environmental protection and sustainability, equal rights, respect, self empowerment, womens rights

Leah Oviedo is a writer and self defense instructor in southern California. Her background includes work in areas of business management, art, youth programs, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Individual empowerment is a recurring theme in her work.

She regularly writes articles on self defense, human rights, and individual empowerment. In 2011 she created ImpowerYou.org, an access to information and resource website.