BOLD NATIONAL GATHERING, FEBRUARY 19 - 23, 2025! SAVE THE DATES!
Powerful and Coordinated.
Deeply Impactful, powerful, and coordinated movements.
Transforming the practice of Black organizers.
BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) is a
catalyst
for transformative Black leadership. Through offering training, project incubation, and network cultivation BOLD supports the infrastructure of deeply impactful powerful, and coordinated movements.
WHAT WE DO
IMPACT STORIES
ALUMNI REFLECTIONS
A maroon space. A Black space. An expansive space. I came to BOLD, through the Directors and Lead Organizers track, shrunk in pain, doubt, isolation, and lost in the complexities of my identity. I walked into the first retreat unsure if my Blackness was enough, unsure about my role in our movement, and longing for my deepest organizing yes. Before BOLD I had never had anyone invest in my leadership, yet alone my personal development. I jumped into this organizing work 13 years ago, as a young person from the Bronx, as a means of survival, not realizing that my existence was a form of resistance. It was through BOLD that I realized that I had a right to be in my wholeness: young, Dominican, and Black. It was through BOLD that I learned I had a right to take up space; that my body carried history, stories of struggle, and ancestral love. It was through BOLD that I stood in my contradictions and remained centered on my commitments. It was through BOLD that I learned to radiate in the magic that is Black people and Black love. I am blessed to be held in a space that is as much about our movement as it is about us. I am more connected and ready to continue to wage struggle for Black Liberation.
