Her story
Lily Mae arrived on a Tuesday morning and made the whole room feel different.
She was small and fierce and full of something — her parents called it light. In the seventy-four days she had, she was held, sung to, read to, and loved by everyone who met her. Her dad said she had her mom's eyes and her grandmother's stubbornness.
She passed on May 17, 2021, surrounded by her family. She left behind two parents whose love for her has nowhere to go but outward — and so The Lily Mae Foundation was born.
"We didn't know what to do with all this love. We still don't. But we knew we couldn't keep it to ourselves. Lily would have hated that."
— Marcus and Elena Reyes, founders
