Welcome to Rise Up, a space where the voices of Black and Brown women activists are amplified. We’re dedicated to giving you the best blogging content, with a focus on authentic, unapologetic, and fierce stories from around the country. Rise Up is the source for ideas, information, and inspiration, whether you are just getting into activism and organizing work or if you have been in the movement for decades. You are welcome here.

Rise Up is a project of the Wayfinder Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting the work of Black and Brown women activists and organizers in key cities across the country. Wayfinder Foundation provides technical support and financial support to Black and Brown women who are making a difference in their local communities and demanding justice for communities that are under-served. Wayfinder Fellows are powerful change agents, mothers, sisters, and fierce agents of change. They speak truth-to-power, always.

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