Behind the Veil

Women, Race, and Leadership
in the Nonprofit
Social Justice Sector

BTV connects women of color (WOC) executive directors, organizational 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 writing platform offers a creative community for WOC to reflect on leadership practices and grow as storytellers, orators, and authors.

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.

CONNECT

and uplift women of color leaders to reflect on their leadership journeys through gathering, storytelling and writing

BUILD

a multi-generational community of women of color leaders

SUSTAIN

platforms that center and celebrate the leadership of women of color

CREATE

publications that women of color leaders can access and use to facilitate conversation and growth

“Women of color have to work so hard for their ways 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.”
BTV Participant