01/01/2026
Happy New Year and Happy Kwanzaa! ✨ Today, we conclude Kwanzaa with Imani, which represents Faith and the belief in our people and our collective future.
At Black Women for Wellness and our sister organization Black Women for Wellness Action Project (BWWAP), faith shows up through our policy work. We imagine the world we deserve and we work together to make it real through advocacy, accountability and community power.
Our policy work is one way we turn belief into action. Grounded in the lived experiences of Black women and families, we work to transform systems that harm us and advance policies that protect our bodies, our dignity, and our right to thrive.
Through BWWAP, we advocate for legislation that addresses implicit bias in healthcare, expands access to community-based doulas and midwives, protects abortion and reproductive healthcare, ends the surveillance and criminalization of Black women, girls, and birthing people, and advances environmental and economic justice. We also remain deeply engaged after policies pass, working to ensure implementation, accountability, and enforcement so that laws create real change in our communities.
Our policy agenda is shaped by community voices, research, and organizing. We assess gaps in existing laws, identify emerging threats rooted in reproductive oppression, and mobilize collective power to move decision makers toward justice.
This work requires faith... faith in our people, faith in our ability to reimagine what is possible, and faith that sustained advocacy can and does change lives.
