About Brave Sis Project,
and The Visitation That Began It
Brave Sis Project is a Black woman-owned storytelling, learning, and leadership platform for rebuilding solidarity and trust, anchored in the wisdom of Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Foremothers.
How it Began
Brave Sis Project was born on Christmas Day 2019, when Rozella Kennedy experienced a visitation and calling to tell the stories of ancestral women of color whose lives were too little-known. That invocation turned into a “Journey Journal,” combination day-planner, journal, history book, and for the first two years, a coloring book as well. We published four editions that reached happy readers in six continents and across all social and class groups.
Our work led to a publishing contract with Workman/Hachette for what would become the Nautilus Award-winning publication “Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History.” Simultaneously, our Founder was working in the corporate DEI space as well as engaging in global humanitarian sectors, learning deeper cultural relativism and pride.
This work all contributed to the practice of the Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab today: a storytelling and learning platform rooted in self-care, sisterhood, and historical education that serves to advance solidarity, unity, and joyful justice through three pillars: Celebrate, Learn, and Act.
Who Brave Sis Project is for
Brave Sis Project is for equity-minded people of all identities ready to practice, not just declare, solidarity. We obviously serve BIPOC* women and people of color across identities and cultures who seek to celebrate, reclaim, learn, and build upon shared legacies. We provide programming to organizations and teams interested in doing this work in a post-DEI context. We also engage with ecosystem partners who amplify our work and mission-aligned funders who invest in what comes next.
*About “BIPOC”: we know the acronym is evolving and can feel reductive and misaligned for many. We use it here as a familiar shorthand.
The methodology
Everything we do runs on SAIN et SAUF, which stands for Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing Solidarity and Unity, and the French sain et sauf means safe and sound. It is a partnership model, not a compliance program, built to be practiced in your own life and influence rather than completed in a room and forgotten.
Building a community of trusted facilitators
Brave Sis Project works across three axes: Storytelling as celebration and inspiration, learning praxis as mindset shift and leadership growth, action for solidarity and unity that sustains both at the group and individual/community level. All our work is offered with the hope of collective liberation, rebuilt solidarity, and reliable trust in a post-DEI world.
Ways to Begin
For Organizations and Groups
Bring the practice to your team.
For Media or Speaking
Invite Rozella to write, speak, or join the conversation.
For ecosystem partners and funders
Invest in what comes after DEI.
About our founder
Rozella Kennedy is an award-winning author and the founder of Brave Sis Project. Her Nautilus Award-winning book, Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History, published by Workman/Hachette, has reached readers across six continents and supported foundations, nonprofits, and justice-focused groups worldwide. She writes long-form essays and mini-coaching at rozellakennedy.substack.com
