Women, Race, and leadership in the nonprofit social justice sector
Behind the Veil (BTV) connects women of color (WOC) executive directors, founders and changemakers to celebrate the ways they transform their environment with culturally informed leadership and vision for social, racial, and economic justice. BTV’s leadership community offers a creative space for WOC to reflect on leadership practices and grow as storytellers, orators, and authors.
for May 2024!
BTV is a hub for WOC leaders to connect, write and publish
stories about their unique avenues of leadership. By gathering,
reflecting and creating in community, BTV honors WOC leaders’
monumental impacts on social justice and formalizes an avenue
for current WOC leaders to offer their insights to future generations.
1.
CONNECT
and uplift women of color leaders to reflect on their leadership journeys through gathering, storytelling and writing
2.
BUILD
a multi-generational community of women of color leaders
3.
SUSTAIN
platforms that center and celebrate the leadership of women of color
4.
CREATE
publications that women of color leaders can access and use to facilitate conversation and growth
About Us
More about the BTV Team
A leadership community created
by and for women of color.
“Women of color have to work so hard for their ways
BTV Participant
of knowing to manifest in their organizations. Behind the Veil has been this great anchor for me and a nourishing,
holistic space for women of color.”
Behind the Veil 