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Director’s Reflections: Five Years of Teacher Truth
As Teacher Truth enters year five, our team continues to celebrate the brilliant educators who lend their stories of triumph and loss; joy and pain; success and struggle; and everything in between.
March 2025 Wellness Resources
Many of us have experienced the remarkable impact of storytelling in our own lives. Whether it happens through literature, theater, or good old-fashioned conversation, resonant and reflective storytelling can unlock and unleash untapped power and potential.
Post Event Reflection: New Year visioning
We kicked off the year and our 2025 Events Calendar with our highly anticipated New Year Visioning workshop designed and facilitated by our Programs and Events Manager Afiya Shani. Impactful, transformative, and just plain fun this workshop welcomed dreamers into their visioning power!
FOUNDER’S REFLECTION: Celebrating 10 Years of BlackFemaleProject
I started BlackFemaleProject because it was important to me to document our stories in real time, not 50 years later. I’ve grounded our research in a commitment to truth telling and the lived realities of the workplace experience for Black women of all ages.
February 2025 Wellness Resources
Black women’s relationship to caretaking is a complex one. We’re often thought of as reliable, loving, supportive, and nurturing—all admirable qualities. But when and how are we making time to apply these qualities to ensure that we care for ourselves? After all, we can only show up for others if and when we’re well enough to do so.
JANUARY 2025 Wellness Resources
The transition from one year into the next is a great time to take stock of what we’re feeling good about and what might benefit from some rethinking. Some people might say that we attract what we’re ready for; others might break it down through the lens of energy and frequencies. Regardless of personal perspectives, all kinds of literature and research affirms and elevates the power of mindset. If we want an abundant, successful 2025, we have to first envision that abundance and success and trust that it’s coming our way.
Kwanzaa Podcast Playlist
Enjoy this curated list of podcasts episodes that feature BlackFemaleProject staff, champions, and other Black women leaders discussing wellness, wisdom, and work. Each episode speaks to the daily value of Kwanzaa and elevates the work and power of Black women.
DECEMBER 2024 Wellness Resources
All the wisdom that we need exists within us. But in a world full of distractions, we have to be intentional about quieting the noise in order to hear our intuition clearly. Between social media, the 24 hour news cycle, and the general expansion of digital technology, there are countless forces pulling us away from quiet moments of solitude. The good news, though, is that there are also countless ways to cultivate these moments to connect with ourselves and tap into our inner worlds.
Post Event Reflection: Disturbing the Peace - Annihilating Comfort to Advocate for Yourself with Ché Abram
In our final event of the year, board member Ché Abram guided us through a brief presentation and discussion around getting comfortable with discomfort so that we can both advocate for ourselves and improve the world for others.
Perspectives: Fern Stroud
When we circled back a year after we wrote our stories, everyone seemed elevated, almost freed. They no longer had to hold onto whatever it was that was holding them down professionally. They're freed. And that freedom is evident, and now it's impacting the lives of everyone they come into contact with. - Fern Stroud
NOVEMBER 2024 Wellness Resources
The modern world is full of extremes. As we witness and experience drastic political, social, and environmental crises, we continue to be surrounded by beautiful examples of love, resistance, and hope.
Perspectives: Precious J. Stroud
“BlackFemaleProject exists to add more stories of truth to the entire scope of stories. If we tell our truth, then what someone else says as their belief of us no longer has power. We're adding more positive, truer stories into the world.” - Precious Stroud
Learning from Educators, Aligning our Offerings: An update from Teacher Truth Director, Dr. E’rika Chambers
By holding space for Black educators to speak their truths–unmasked and vulnerable–we support their healing, well-being, and, consequently, their positive impact as educators. Black educators deserve healing, and their students deserve healed educators.
Member Spotlight: Araceli Cruz-Marks
I believe in BlackFemaleProject because I have a Black daughter, and Black women are held to a completely different standard as soon as they walk into the room.
Member Spotlight: Kamika Dunlap
I have more than 20 years of experience as a leader specializing in strategic communications, storytelling, marketing, government affairs, public policy, and journalism.
Member Spotlight: Faye Carol
Because there aren’t a hell of a lot of people in organizations who are really practicing that and holding up Black women and actually supporting us in the many professions that we are in. That is a lot of the reason why we can exist – because of organizations like BlackFemaleProject.
Member Spotlight: Dr. Barbara Stroud
Black women, in addition to all other women of color, we need spaces where we see other Black women thriving because that is so rare to see. We tend to internalize the white supremacy narrative that we are less than or we can’t succeed. And even when we do succeed, we are told that we are an anomaly.
Member Spotlight: Robin McBride
One of the most important things we can do as business women, no matter what stage we are at in our business, is to uplift each other and become a resource for each other.
Member Spotlight: Audrey Cormier
I believe in the mission because of the part that talks about your ability to self-define success. Black women in corporate America have achieved some successes, but clearly there are many more things companies can do to create opportunities for Black women and women of color.
OCTOBER 2024 Wellness Resources
In our world, Black women are a total standard of excellence. The style, the grace, the melanin, the beauty! But the wider world we live in doesn’t always see it the same way. External projections and false narratives often try to position Black women in a less favorable light rather than acknowledging and honoring our natural state of glory.