RISE like a girl

02/10/2022

If you’re stuck at a crossroads to making the “right” decision, there’s only one thing you need to do…

Find what feels WARM 💖

02/07/2022

Clear is kind.
Unclear is unkind.

Setting boundaries with clarity and respect is the best thing we can do to love ourselves.

What are you saying no to this week?

02/04/2022

“You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.”
-Toni Morrison

07/12/2021

July is Disability Pride Month! 🎉
To celebrate & honor people with exceptional abilities, I’m sharing some of my top picks for little ones and middle grades that feature girls with disabilities.

Picture books 📕:
• Meeting Mimi by Francis Dolan
• I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca
• Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor
• My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay by Cari Best
• The Dancers by Thomas Peacock
• The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon
• All the Way to the Top by Annette Bay Pimentel
• You’re All Kinds of Wonderful by Nancy Tillman
• Susan Laughs by Jeanne Willis

Middle Grade and YA novels 📖:
• El Deafo by Cece Bell
• Speechless by Katie Darbishire
• Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart
• Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
• With Two She Flew by Catherine Bodega

✨Have you read of of these books? Which ones are you adding to your collection?

07/09/2021

✨5 UNSTOPPABLE BLACK GIRLS YOU BETTER WATCH OUT FOR✊🏽

1️⃣ Tiana Day: activist, organizer, founder of Youth Advocates for Change
2️⃣ Kheris Rogers: fashion designer & creator of Flexin’ In My Complexion
3️⃣ Vashti Cunningham: high jumper and Olympic athlete
4️⃣ Scripps National Spelling Bee champion and basketball prodigy
5️⃣ Jordan Chiles: champion gymnast and member of the 2021 USA Gymnastics Olympic team

Who else should we keep our eye on?? 👀

05/12/2021

Hi friends!

It’s been a while since I introduced myself! Here’s 5 fun facts about me:
1️⃣ RISE is my passion project that I’ve been working on since 2015. It’s my way of lifting up girls and women through sharing my story, offering resources, and building a community of like-minded girl leaders!
2️⃣ I currently work as an instructional coach at a charter school in Washington, DC where I support awesome teachers in being the best teachers they can be.
3️⃣ I rarely watch movies because it feels like too much of a time commitment and requires too much thought. I typically only watch things that allow me to 836523 other things at the same time.
4️⃣ I’m super afraid of birds - specifically birds that are pets. They’re so unpredictable! 🙈
5️⃣ After postponing my wedding last year because of covid, I’m (finally) getting married this June!! 🙌🏽

Thanks for sticking with me in this space!
You are loved, your feelings are valid, and what you have to say matters! 💕💕

05/04/2021

How can we lovingly support our friends? 💕
Let’s face it, we mean well but sometimes we do way too much! We start giving advice or saying “it’s no big deal”, when sometimes all our friends really want is just someone to simply be there. It’s not always about WHAT we say, but really about how we make them FEEL.

What are some strategies you use to support your friends?
How will be a better friend moving forward?

04/25/2021

HEY, YOU!
In case someone hasn’t told you lately...
You are loved 💕
Your feelings are valid 🥰
What you have to say matters 🎙

Sending you all lots of love and good energy on this Sunday!

04/23/2021

Spring is in full swing 🍃🌸 so I thought I’d share some of my favorite books about adventure, mother nature, and fearless girl leads. 🏃🏽‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🦸🏾‍♀️

Picture books 📕:
•Kate Who Tamed the Wind by Liz Garton Scanlon
•Journey by Aaron Becker
•Joan Proctor, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles by Patricia Valdez
•Stella Star of the Sea by Marie-Louise Gay
•Beatrice Was a Tree by Joyce Hasselberth
•Puma Dreams by Tony Johnston
•Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots by Carmela Coyle
•Violet Pilot by Steve Breen
•Wild by Emily Hughes
•Hattie & Hudson by Chris Van Dusen

Middle Grade and YA 📖:
• Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains by Rebel Girls
• As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
• The End of the Wild by Nicole Helget
• Stand On the Sky by Erin Bow
• Shuri: A Black Panther Novel by Nic Stone

✨Have you read any of these? Which one are you adding to your collection??

04/21/2021

"Cases of police brutality occur so often it is impossible to maintain the emotional space to learn about and invest in each of them - but it is the most human elements of these cases that demand your attention."

https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/seeing-myself-in-makhia-bryant?r=g22yi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy&fbclid=IwAR1a9vkFiiVye0NtBILGF5UBIvdYbkyqk3S6WCVpC8uCJpqByqV2k_1blX0

While the country held its breath waiting for the Derek Chauvin verdict to be announced, police took yet another Black life.

04/21/2021

“I will have JOY for the small things I have access to. I will pay attention to where the light pours through.” -

Life’s been testing me (& all of us) y’all but I’m gonna keep finding joy in the things I can control. I will name it, I will honor, I will share it with others 💕

04/18/2021

Sunday scaries? Same. 🙋🏽‍♀️
What do you need today to get you through? Take what you need ❤️