Black Women Shining is a campaign powered by The Integrity Institute, LLC to restore rest, hope, joy, trust, and needed resources into the lives of Black women. This campaign exist, in part, because despite the reality that Black women have an irrefutable history of taking care of their families, winning elections, building business empires, and being silent sustainers of their spiritual institutions, over the last year, more than 300,000 Black women have been deliberately and disproportionately pushed out of their jobs. The result: an economic and social shift that has disproportionately impacted Black women’s professional stability, leadership presence, and mental wellbeing.
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Out of an abundance of alarm, Black Women Shining was conceived by, Mischa Duffie, a 25-year serial entrepreneur who has trained, coached, and inspired women for over 35 years, to remind Black women of their agency. As stated by Duffie, “Not only do we empathize with Black women who have been blindsided by the unfair, unjust, and unacceptable treatment of this current administration. We stand in solidarity with them as they pivot, rebuild, regain their footing, and reimagine a more promising life for themselves. I am of the belief that for everything Black women have given, they too deserve support, honor, investment, nurturing, inspiration, noticing, and grace.” 
 

Our convenings, therefore, are an offering. They are an invitation to be in community surrounded by love, hope, joy. They are a space where Black women are reminded anew of their agency and their right to keep shining. In addition to a featured guest, our convenings consist of incredible women whose faith, work, and overall journey embody the pride, practices, and purposefulness we desire every woman to claim or reclaim for herself.