About Us
Who are we?
Brown Girl Project is a research and dialogue initiative that brings women of color together to reflect on lived experiences and create shared understanding. Conversations are facilitated and documented, with insights shared back to participants to inform collective reflection and action. This approach helps communities explore what matters most to them, identify emerging needs, and imagine ways to respond. By fostering collaboration, reflection, and knowledge-sharing, our work creates spaces for connection, understanding, and thoughtful community-driven approaches.
"Brown Girl Project understands Brown as a relational and contextual identity shaped by histories of marginalization rather than by rigid racial or gender categories. Brown names a shared space rather than a single identity; one that reflects lived experiences shaped by cultural complexity and exclusion, while honoring fluidity, self-identification, and intersectionality."
What do we do?
Facilitated group conversations and dialogues
Collective reflection and analysis
Documentation of recurring themes across lived experience
Ongoing inquiry by participant feedback
​Rather than extracting stories, we focus on shared interpretation by identifying patterns, tensions, and questions that emerge across individual lives.