Four core programs for girls. Four core programs for women. All hybrid via The Culture Collective. All grounded in arts, healing, and leadership.
A declaration before it becomes a habit: I am. Through visual art, guided journaling, somatic check-ins, and peer circles, girls learn to name themselves before the world names them. We explore identity, lineage, body sovereignty, and what it means to belong to yourself first. The name does triple work — a personal affirmation, a claim of belonging to the Assembly, and a nod to the spiritual and cultural tradition of self-declaration across Black and Indigenous communities. No prerequisites. Just showing up.
Our signature 8-week leadership immersion — programming rooted in work we have been doing since 2018. From identity and values to voice, conflict navigation, boundary-setting, and vision planning, every girl walks in folded and walks out unfolded. Concludes with the Garden graduation ceremony. Cohort-based, in-person sessions with online community through The Culture Collective. Open to all girls 12–17, with an anchor cohort designed for ages 12–14.
You don't wait for the world to be built for you. You learn to design it. Through design thinking, project-based community work, and collaborative leadership practice, Architects participants identify a real problem, build a real response, and present publicly. Culturally rooted. Systems-aware. Deeply creative. LeadHers alumni are prioritized; all girls 15–17 are welcome.
A creative writing and wellness program that treats the page as sacred ground. Girls explore personal narrative, poetry, spoken word, and literary arts as tools for processing adolescence, identity, and becoming. Every session opens with a body check-in and closes with a witnessed read-aloud. Participants build a portfolio of original work and present at a public showcase. Black, Brown, and Indigenous girl stories deserve to be told in their own words.
STEAM through the lens of creativity, culture, and community impact. Bloom Lab uses art and design thinking as the entry point into science, technology, engineering, and math — centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous girls' ways of knowing, making, and problem-solving. The Junior track (ages 12–14) focuses on exploration, building, and experimenting. The Advanced track (ages 15–17) goes deeper into project design, mentorship from women of color in STEAM fields, and a capstone presentation. Black girls belong in every room — including the ones where the future is being built.
A monthly healing and community circle for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women — with a separate Junior track for girls 14–17. Each circle has a theme: grief, transitions, body, joy, ancestors, ambition, rest. Facilitated by trained women of color wellness practitioners. Sister Circle is not therapy, but it creates the conditions for healing. Real women. Honest conversation. No performance. The circle is the medicine. Junior circles are age-appropriate, separately facilitated, and require parental consent.
An arts-based identity and leadership development program for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women — the adult continuation of the work begun in our youth programs. The Culture Lab uses creative inquiry, visual art, writing, and movement to explore who you are, how culture has shaped your leadership, and what you want to build next. The space where healing and strategy meet. Where you learn to lead from your whole self, not just the parts acceptable in professional spaces.
A cohort-based mentorship and peer community program pairing women across experience levels within the Black Girl Assembly ecosystem. The long-game sisterhood container. Participants are matched by professional focus, life stage, and goals. Weekly peer check-ins, two facilitated group sessions per month, one-on-one mentorship, and a collective project that gives back to the broader community. The circle keeps growing.
For Black, Brown, and Indigenous women pivoting into or advancing within STEAM fields — whether that means a career shift, a creative tech project, a community science initiative, or reclaiming a STEAM identity that was educated out of you. Combines skill-building with mentorship from women of color in STEAM, rooting all learning in Black and Indigenous scientific traditions and community-centered innovation. Your brilliance belongs in the lab.
Black Girl Assembly graduates who are ready for deeper professional development gain access to the Alchemy for Change ecosystem — a culture strategy and leadership development firm centered on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. At 18, BGA graduates receive one complimentary year of The Culture Collective on Mighty Networks. The pipeline runs from a girl's first cohort to her leadership in the field.