We are building a worker-owned National Black Women’s Creative Cooperative that will be a mutual aid network of Black women creatives who support one another to work within organizations throughout the creative sector and independently. Finding environments that are supportive and prioritize retaining Black women's leadership is rare. We will remove the barriers that often keep Black women creatives in oppressive and toxic work environments and support our tiny creative businesses to thrive! Established in 2020 for us and by us. The Coop is an ecosystem, network, and marketplace where Black Women Creatives can grow, gain professional development and services like medical, vision, dental, long-term and short-term disability, payroll and staffing services all from Black-owned businesses. Toward a goal of financial freedom, we are spending the time to form a cooperative enterprise, a business entity that is collectively owned by us and share in the profits of the company. There are many other coalitions, and organizations that support segments and issues of Black Women through programs and services. We seek to work in partnership with those organizations. And, am explicitly pulling together dynamic and Black Women Creatives to take our collective skills, training talents, equity, and justice-minded frameworks into these conversations to build OUR COOPERATIVE BUSINESS where Black Women’s lives are centered.