BRAVE SIS PROJECT: LEARNING & LIFESTYLE FOR BIPOC WOMEN & THEIR FRIENDS
Foremothers Celebration * Bold, Inclusive Sisterhood * Authentic Allyship & Leadership development * Building Beloved Community
Founded in 2019, Brave Sis Project centers BIPOC women's history for learning, celebration, and leadership development anchored in equity.
We uplift Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous Foremothers and she-roes and connect to opportunities to build and sustain understanding and embrace across difference of race, class, culture, and ethnicity.
We do this through publications, speaking, and workshops, strategic advisory, and facilitation — all deriving from history (sistory) lessons and expanding the notion of who and what matters. #inspiration.
WOrkshops, facilitations, Advisory
Brave Sis Project was created in 2019 by author and global social impact thought leader Rozella (Rozie) Kennedy to create a venue for discovering and celebrating little-known BIPOC women in US history whose stories can inspire us all.
Building upon her 25+ years’ experience designing, implementing, influencing, and coaching for community and social sector impact across sectors — from fundraising and communications to project design, event management, and people leadership, Kennedy has expanded her practice of working with groups and individuals seeking to embed diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice as essential operationalizers of individual growth and systems change.
These engagements, ranging from book events to speaking, one-off workshops, all the way to embedded advisory and leadership coaching, helps clients build authentic, heartfelt, and generative practices to sustain these shifts.
Brave Sis facilitations go beyond "DEI," incorporating history and storytelling with sensitivity training, discussions about power-shifting and implicit bias, brave space co-creation, reflection—and celebration, helping individuals and groups alike grow into leadership and collaboration that is more authentic, empathic, knowing, and sustainable.
AWARDS & NEWS
Latest Writing!
New Blog Post:
Yo, Me, Moi: Mapping a Life Thesis
South Seattle Emerald:
Dear Progressive White Women: An Updated Love Letter (September 9, 2024)
Friendship in Black, White, and Color: A Women’s History Month Seattle Love Letter: (March, 2023)
NAUTILUS PRIZE AWARDEE!
Our Brave Foremothers is a Nautilus Awards 2024 Silver Award Winner in the Specialty Book Category. Read more about this prestigious international competition here.
Award-Winning Book: Our Brave Foremothers (Workman/Hachette)
Explore more about the book
Inspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women—both household names and little-known—who changed the course of US history. In the beautiful pages of this 2024 Nautilus Award-winning book, discover an intergenerational, intercultural bouquet of Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women lifted into the significance that they deserve.
From Etel Adnan to Mary Jones, Thelma Garcia Buchholdt to Pura Belpré to Zitkála-Šá, here are 100 women of color who left a lasting mark on United States history. The thoughtful profiles and detailed portraits of these women herald their achievements and passions.
Following each entry is a prompt that asks you to connect your life to theirs, an inspiring way to understand their influence and the power of their stories.
SHOP: FUN & FAB FINDS FOR FRIENDS, FANS & FUTURE FOREMOTHERS
Which foremother will you rep today? What message best reflects your own Brave Sis self?
