Our Board of Directors — The Love & Legacy Project

Megan Myrick

Megan Myrick 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. Megan was called and founded The Love & Legacy Project in 2017.

Jennifer Strouss

Jennifer (Jenn) Strouss 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 pleased to be a board member for the Love and Legacy Project.

WEndy woods

Wendy Woods, Childcare Provider, 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. Wendy is honored to serve as a board member for The Love & Legacy Project.

BRYAN MENEES

Bryan M. Menees, VP of Dealer Program, has worked for 20 years in Home Security – is a trusted leader in the alarm industry who has spent 2 decades recruiting, training and exponentiallygrowing home security companies. In 1998, after graduating from 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 is expanding his businesses by creating an upstart Outside Sales coaching company soon to be announced. 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, are involved in several local organizations including non-profits and is now pleased to be a board member for the Love & Legacy Project.

lesley francis

Lesley Francis, Founder and CEO, has worked for 30 years in public relations – over 20 of these in the consumer products and healthcare sectors in London, the toughest and most demanding media market in the world. 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, has served on the boards of the Savannah Book Festival, Ariel Southeast Angels Partners, Bryan County Bark Park and is now pleased to be a director of the board for The Love & Legacy Project.