44 | AUGUST 2019
A
fter achieving an advanced degree in
business management from Glasgow
University, then subsequently moving
to the Middle East to work for the Royal
Family of Bahrain, Deborah Alessi soon
soared to the upper echelon of the private
aircraft company’s management team. The
prestigious position afforded Alessi a steady
stream of exposure to life’s finer things,
including traveling to exotic cities and staying
in the most lavish hotels, swag bags filled
with sumptuous services and products, and
refined, cosmopolitan etiquette. Eventually,
Alessi re-located to the
United States to select,
acquire, and manage the
aircraft arsenals for a
number of famous 500
Fortune companies as well
as private brands.Now CEO and co-founder
of Beverly Hills-based
Face Forward, a unique
organization focused on healing and helping
the hearts, minds, souls, and bodies of those
victimized by domestic violence, abuse,human trafficking, and other dehumanizing
and unspeakable acts of persecution,
Deborah, her husband David, and their
growing team provide emotional support and
reconstructive surgery procedures performed
by Beverly Hills-based medical experts.
Face Forward offers pro bono financial and
social resources to survivors of violence
who are considering undergoing cosmetic
reconstruction while striving to help repair
and rebuild the lives of the broken through
professional counseling. A refuge for those
inhumanely mistreated, Face Forward assists
everyone — women,
children, and men.
Their full-service care
package aids survivors
by providing surgical and
counseling visits, airfare,
hotel accommodations,
transportation, nursing
aftercare, medications,
and so much more.A truly transformative charity, past patients
of Alessi’s philanthropic endeavor have
gone on to become international advocatesFace Forward will
not rest until it
puts the brakes on
domestic violence.
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Photo: Faceforwardla.org