Brown Girls Climb INC
National, East Coast, South, West Coast
Climbing, Outdoor History, Mentorship, Outdoor Education.
We offer virutal and in-person educational meetups. We host outdoor workshop and stewardship days. We offer on a light basis consolation with organizations and brands around JEDI work
Brown Girls Climb (BGC) is a national non-profit which strives to facilitate mentorship, provide access, uplift leadership, and celebrate representation in the outdoors and climbing for People of the Global Majority*.
Our process is adaptive and emergent with a focus on building equitable and just relationships in all the efforts we commit to, including meet-ups and mentorship, resource sharing and redistribution, and employment and industry practices
Historically, we have focused on Women of Color in climbing, but recognize that our work goes beyond women. Our hope is to have a broader impact for all climbers, specifically those impacted by patriarchal systems.
Vision
Brown Girls Climb envisions an “outdoor” and climbing community that honors our individual relationships to the land, complex histories and truths, centers the experiences and voices of those most impacted by colonization and industrialization of the land, and provides a just redistribution of resources so that everyone can find their relationship to the land around them.
Values:
Land-Community Connection
Celebratory & Respectful Community
Responsible & Reciprocal Recreation
Holistic Education & Awareness