WE Group
You deserve to feel confident, beautiful, and truly seen.
Headshots for Hope is an curated women’s empowerment experience created to celebrate you — while supporting Mutual Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women reclaim their power and find safety, strength, and hope.
This boutique headshot experience is more than a photo session. It’s a moment designed to lift you, guide you, and remind you of who you are — inside and out — while giving back in a meaningful way.
Together, we create confidence that reaches far beyond the camera.
In partnership with:
Stephen Alan Salon · Beauty Above Most (BAM) · YPAC – Your Performing Arts Center · Becky Mokelke Photography
Who We Are — The WE Group
The WE Group is a women-led community collective made up of four local business owners who came together with one shared purpose:
To empower individuals, strengthen community connections, and create real impact through meaningful events that give back.
Each founding member of the WE Group brings her own expertise, heart, and passion into every initiative—creating experiences that uplift, inspire, and directly support those in need within our community.
Together, we believe in the power of collaboration, compassion, and community-driven change.
Meet the Founding Women of the WE Group
WE Group events come to life—creating a welcoming environment where community and compassion meet.
The WE Group is a women-led community collective made up of four local business owners who came together with one shared purpose:
To empower individuals, strengthen community connections, and create real impact through meaningful events that give back.
Each founding member of the WE Group brings her own expertise, heart, and passion into every initiative—creating experiences that uplift, inspire, and directly support those in need within our community.
Together, we believe in the power of collaboration, compassion, and community-driven change.
Our Belief
We believe that when women support women and communities support communities, real change happens.
Heather Allen
Owner, Stephen Alan Salon
Helping Mutual Ground not only helps me heal my past, it helps woman heal today. We can make a bigger impact doing things like this event together. Stronger woman raise stronger children which in turn creates a stronger community.
Having a small part in helping woman heal and giving them the strength to move on to bigger and better things is very meaningful to me.
Mutual Ground is incredibly important to me.
Veronica Perez
Owner, Beauty Above Most - BAM
Mutual Ground is deeply important to me because I am now a 10-year survivor of domestic and sexual violence. During the hardest season of my life, a compassionate doctor stood by me, guided me, and helped me rebuild. That support changed everything. Today, I feel a personal responsibility to help other women who are walking a similar path—women who deserve safety, hope, and a chance to start again. Supporting Mutual Ground is one way I honor my healing and help another woman reach hers.
Becky Chap Mokelke
Becky Mokelke Photography
Mutual Ground is incredibly important to me. During a hard time in my life, they were there with support that was compassionate, unbiased, and free of judgment. What I admire most is how they show up for women and families of every background with dignity and respect.
Supporting Mutual Ground is my way of giving back to an organization that truly makes a difference and helps strengthen our community when people need it the most.
Emily Weber
Your Performing Arts Center (YPAC)
This project is deeply personal to me because I believe in the power of women showcasing and supporting one another, whether on the mountains where we shine or in the valleys where we need to be reminded. I've seen how a simple act of encouragement can shift the trajectory of a woman's life. Being a part of this project is a way of helping create a community where women feel seen, valued, and strengthened by one another. Supporting Mutual Ground in this work means investing in a circle of empowerment that lifts every woman, exactly where she is.
