our mission:
Rise.
Our nation is in a critical time: we need powerful leaders to motivate our communities.
Women of color leaders are the pulse of social change movements, and the drivers of innovation.
Our nation is in a critical time: we need powerful leaders to motivate our communities.
Women of color leaders are the pulse of social change movements, and the drivers of innovation.
Women of color leaders are stressed, exhausted, wrung out, and worried about both the known and unknown. The day-to-day battle to rise up against a system designed to disempower them and their communities comes at a great expense.
“It’s time to heal the healers of our communities.”
Recent studies have shown that this feeling over time has morphed into a “fatalistic, depressive” attitude resulting in hopelessness.
... and the FBI has just reported a dramatic increase in hate crimes based on race and ethnicity in the past year.
Currently 1 out of every 4 American women will die from heart disease. Studies show that racial discrimination, racial-bias, and race-based crimes are chronic stressors that negatively impact the cardiovascular and mental health of women of color.
Poverty rates vary considerably among adult women from the largest racial and ethnic groups. Native American women have the highest poverty rate at 28.1 percent, followed by Black (25.7 percent) and Hispanic (24.0 percent) women. The poverty rate for white women (11.7 percent) is the lowest among the groups and is less than half the rate for Native American, Black, and Hispanic women.
Over 80% of Black mothers are breadwinners, yet have the caregiving responsibility for an elderly parent, a person with a disability or a young child, which they must balance with work obligations.
Women of color leaders work against the dangers of stress, trauma, and even assassinations, from those who disagree with or fear them. They are women who fight to protect the lives of their community and loved ones, to protect the land rightfully theirs, and boldly call out injustice.
Undeterred by the task at hand, these leaders—our leaders—refuse to stand down and are continuously innovating to dismantle barriers, create opportunities, and design solutions to multiple challenges faced by their communities.
They face ongoing attacks from a broken system structured to undermine their basic human and civil rights. Despite this, women of color leaders work to reduce the divide between what exists today, and what should be in place...
With so many things at risk, it feels counterintuitive to slow down and replenish. But that's exactly what women of color must do. This is the purpose of In Her Power...
When working on the frontlines, restoring and implementing systemic change that transforms economic, race and gender inequities, a leader can’t give from herself indefinitely without refilling her well.
We are the Well that leaders draw from. A safe and inviting space where leaders can land, rest, and find sanctuary when her soul feels tired, her body depleted, and restoration is in order.
We have designed a highly interactive, restorative, and strengthening experience, fulfilling the intricate needs of our leaders, infusing connectivity, creativity, and spirituality through experiential learning.
We are not your traditional leadership conference or retreat. We are keenly aware that scapegoating and a resurgence of overt racism has re-triggered old trauma and created new trauma for many women of color leaders.
In Her Power experiences create a unique learning opportunity for leaders to address and heal from the shock, grief, and anger, as well as limiting beliefs that may be impacting their self-esteem and sense of power.
Our retreats integrate self-care, outdoor exploration, creative activism, cross-sector collaborations, and design thinking. Participants will be positioned to lead through the emotional, psychological, health, economic, and social effects of multigenerational trauma.
They will collectively explore bold approaches of thinking, designing, prototyping, and implementing when addressing the complexities of racism and inequity.
In Her Power Events are held in beautiful settings among redwood trees, in lush valleys, and surrounded by the ocean and mountains.
Leaders who spend most of their time in the trenches and on the frontline, will finally be able to look up, reconnect with the power of Self, and exhale...
The outdoors is a rich setting to provoke the mind, recharge the body and nurture the soul.
Founder of In Her Power &
CEO of I Am Boldacious
Director of African American and African Studies at OSU & Founder / Executive Director at The Center for Optimal Thought
President of Sistallect, Inc. /
Creator of State of Black Women in California
Deputy Secretary for the Future of Work at California Labor & Workforce Development Agency
Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Peralta Community College District
Founder & President of Strategies for Change
CEO at Children’s Council of San Francisco
Associate Director of People Success at Easterseals Bay Area
Co-founder & CEO of Nutrigene
Woolfolk Law Firm
Business Strategist & Coach
Graphic Designer & Writer