THRIVE Community

I’m building THRIVE Community to support black women in higher education, particularly those who live in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

With all of the changes under the new Trump administration, I’m concerned about – well, a lot of things, to be honest. The takeovers, the proposed eradication of the Department of Education, the erasures of history, the attack on the arts, the redaction of DEI, and on and on. Honestly, it’s exhausting. And disheartening.

So I’m ecstatic that I serve a God who is Sovereign and in control and able to handle whatever comes our way!

As I’ve been thinking and praying about all the things, my heart keeps circling back to black women in higher education. Higher education is a difficult space to exist in as a woman. And even more difficult as a black woman. Add in all of the things happening in the US right now, and we get a concoction primed to take out all the black women fighting the good fight in higher education.

I may not be able to do everything, but I am able to do something, and the something I can do is provide a place where black women in higher education can create, encourage, hold, and demand space for our own creativity, joy, and rest.

So I’m creating THRIVE Community. It’s a work in progress, and we need your help.

Please check out the link to learn more about THRIVE Community, and if you would like to join our new community, just fill out the Google form you’ll find near the bottom of the THRIVE Community page.

If you like what you find, please share THRIVE Community with others.

Here’s to THRIVE-ing!