Foremother Wisdom · Reflection & Growth
· The Practice of Solidarity
In a post-DEI word, how do we rebuild solidarity and trust for a more unified and collaborative future?
Celebrate. Learn. Act.
We know the acronym ‘BIPOC’ is evolving and can feel reductive and misaligned for many. We use it here as a familiar shorthand.
Brave Sis Project is a Black woman-owned storytelling, learning, and leadership platform. We uplift BIPOC* Foremothers whose stories have often been erased or overlooked, and we use their lives to explore what matters most in leadership, relationships, and community.
A Practice That Gives You What You Want Now
For Individuals.
Start with the free Solidarity and Unity EQ Assessment. It takes about five to ten minutes and it tells you where you fall on a six-stage continuum, names your primary Solidarity Blocker, and points you toward a path forward.
Free · No login required
For Teams and Groups.
Solidarity Lab: Team Edition, for mission-driven nonprofits, foundations, schools, and equity-minded teams. Start with the Team Solidarity Audit (team-level EQ profiles, blocker mapping, recommendations report), then choose from curricula, workshops, retreat design, leadership coaching, and other engagements.
Team EQ Assessment · Coming Soon
For Facilitators.
Solidarity Lab Facilitator’s Academy, coming Q2 2027. Practitioners earn full certification across all 11 lessons of the curriculum, build brave space design skills, learn to localize the methodology, and join an ongoing facilitator community of practice. Inaugural cohort stipended; applications open when fundraising goal is reached.
Opens Q2 2027
Three Ways to Join Us
Celebrate
Meet the Foremothers through stories, the book, SistoryLessons, and the shop. Their lives are both the lesson plan and the inspiration.
Learn
For the individual learner who wants a practice, not a training. Brave Awareness is where it starts — a mindset shift you can sustain and grow.
Act
For teams, organizations, and facilitators ready to bring the methodology into their work and create lasting structural change.
A Solid Practice,
Not Just Another Training
Awareness is just the start of an ongoing practice.
We have all experienced the short-term trainings that ultimately change very little in practice. Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab is built on our proprietary SAIN et SAUF (Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing Solidarity and Unity Framework), the methodology underneath all our offerings. This approach is designed to be practiced in your life and relationships, not just completed in a cubicle.
Rebuilding coalition requires deep work: humility, sustained practice, repaired trust. Central to this work is joy, celebration, cultural competence that is generous and not extractive, and decentering whiteness as the default and only standard. The Foremothers are not just the lesson plan, they are the evidence and the inspiration.
Brave Awareness: Navigating Solidarity and Unity in a Post-DEI World
Solidarity and Anti-Racism Practice Without Fear, Frustration, or Fatigue
You can feel the disconnect between what you believe and what you actually are able to enact. You feel the distance between you and those you want to collaborate and build with. You don’t like this gap.
Brave Awareness is a self-paced course built on the SAIN et SAUF methodology, taught through Foremother wisdom. It’s not a DEI training. It’s a mindset and practice shift you can sustain and grow.
$149
One-time
10
Lessons
Lifetime access
Self-paced
Start anytime
What Practice Partners Are Saying
“Rozie has a rare ability to design big-picture change strategies that honor where each person is starting from, bridging blind spots, biases, and differing experiences without losing sight of the mission. She translates complex and sensitive topics into frameworks and practices that are both accessible and actionable, helping teams move through discomfort toward alignment and trust. Her work doesn’t just improve conversations, it transforms not just relationships, but the systems that sustain trust over time.”
Chief of Staff
“Your course taught me how I can both harm marginalized folks through my privileges while also being marginalized myself in other ways. It’s your course, too, that led me to use the term ‘advocate’ over ‘ally’ to focus on the ‘action’ part. It’s always top of mind for me when I’m recommending anti-racism resources.”
Solidarity Lab Participant
“Until I took this course, I wasn’t fully able to see how some of the legacy biases inside me were holding me back, and the people around me back.”
Solidarity Lab Participant
“She has a rare gift for calling people in—creating spaces of courage, compassion, and real transformation.”
Organizational Psychologist
Foremother Wisdom, Twice a Month
Twice a month, on the 1st and the 15th, meet three to four Foremothers gathered around a theme, with reflection and action points that you can return to. No spam, no guilt, just inspiring women to discover and celebrate.
Recent Foremother Stories
- Free Zoom Talk: What's the Role of White Women in Racial Equity in a Post-DEI World?
On July 14, I will be in conversation with my friend and associate Fleur Larsen, a coach and consultant focusing on the role of white woman in racial equity. Fleur and I often converse about what role white women should take on in this post-DEI moment, if we wish to rebuild community, collaboration, and trust across racial difference. We’re inviting you into our conversation on Tuesday, Jul 14, 2026 03:00 PM EDT/12 PDT over Zoom. This talk is for all of us who want to create new solidarity...
- July 1, 2026: 5 Sports Foremothers Who Broke the Color Line Before A'ja Wilson and Coco Gauff Ever Played
Five trailblazing women—Althea Gibson, Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson, Tidye Pickett, Victoria Manalo Draves, and Patsy Mink—paved the way for today's sports
- 6.15.26 —Strummin' Foremothers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Lydia Mendoza, and Mary Kaye
Strummin' Foremothers How many of you knew that June is Black Music Month? This celebration has been officially on the books since 1979, at the urging of the Black Music Association—an industry coalition co-founded by Kenny Gamble of Philadelphia International Records, music executive Ed Wright, and broadcaster Dyana Williams (who is widely credited with proposing the month itself)—President Carter signed the first proclamation on June 7 of that year. That's 47 years ago! (Note: President...
Foremother Wisdom Quotes (Coming Soon)
Unlock encouraging and inspiring quotes form the Foremothers in a gradual reflection experience that unfolds over time
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
The Foremothers did not wait for an invitation to the table, and they did not ask for permission. Neither should we.
DEI Got Dismantled. Why This Concerns Us All, and What to Do About It.
Institutions pulled back, executive orders were undone, budgets cut, diversity offices dissolved. Cultural, social, and political will were turned inside out.
The institutional collapse was only part of the downfall; a lot of people who were ‘doing the work’ dropped out as well. Aspiring white allies and women who did not succumb to ‘diversity fatigue’ found themselves without a structure to work inside, well-meaning but rudderless. Women of color, especially Black women, found themselves exhausted: tired of being the teachers, the patient explainers, the ones who had to absorb the cost of everyone else’s learning while the status quo either stalled or went backwards.
Today we are looking at a breakdown on three levels: between institutions and their stated values, between people who want solidarity and need a practice to sustain it, and between communities that need to come together across difference and collaborate for positive change, right now. To be clear: racism is the foundational lever but not the only one, sexism, classism, xenophobia, ableism, the isms are many and they are what keep us separated. When institutions and systems fail women of color without consequence, standards of protection become conditional. Eventually, these conditions come for all women. We reside in an unequal, unfair society, and those who wish to help change the status quo have found themselves distanced, disillusioned, and discouraged.
