Our Founder
Adriana Hogan is founder and chairman of Echo 4 Us Foundation, a non profit organization started to fulfill her lifelong dream of providing mentoring and empowerment to girls and young women.
Echo’s Foundation
Prior to launching Echo 4 Us and while working as an architect, she received licenses
as a specialist in prevention in drug abuse from Rice University and as a community health
worker from the Texas Department of State Health Service. She began to volunteer at the Children’s Assessment Center where she provided group, family and individual therapy to child victims of sexual abuse. This work along with other similar activities ignited the entrepreneurial “call to action” by Adriana to form Echo. As a once successful architect, Adriana would later on say “I could build a thousand houses and transform the neighborhoods around them, but nothing compares to building up one girl and transforming her life.”
Echo's Bedrock
In conjunction with The University of Texas Medical School, the Texas Health and Human Service awarded Adriana 'Best Prevention and Awareness Program' for her media storybook and speech entitled The Gray Coat which utilizes storytelling for children to identify and prevent any abuse. She is in the process of publishing an illustrated version of her story.
Adriana has a successful entrepreneurial history of starting businesses, including Menecci Design, an interior design and architecture firm focused on residential and commercial real estate she founded upon moving to The United States more than 20 years ago. She holds a bachelor's in architecture and urban design with a minor in arts and economics. She also studied postgraduate work in social communication, public relations, and marketing & product development. She was a director of public relations for her father’s political campaign.
Confident, compassionate, and curious.
Our Founder, Adriana Hogan The Original Echo
Dynamic, caring, and ever the visionary, Adriana Hogan founded Echo to nurture, strengthen, and educate girls and young women. Not everyone has the chance to learn life’s necessary skills at home or in the classroom, so Adriana dreamed up Echo to fill in those important gaps and prepare girls for real life.
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