About Profound Ladies
Our Vision.
Our vision is to increase the retention of Black, Indigenous Women of Color in education who interrupt inequitable outcomes for all students.
Our Why.
Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by push-out practices that decrease their time in classroom, while creating larger opportunity gaps, as they spend more time out of school. Girls of color are disproportionately, through inequitable school policies and practices, over criminalized and hyper sexualized. Our organization is dedicated to countering these inequities by providing both the mirrors and windows our girls need to actualize their full potential and thrive. Through this community, we serve to interrupt the Cradle to Prison Pipeline by ensuring the women who are members of Profound Ladies are anti-racist in their practices and interrupt inequity in our education system. Our work is dedicated to rejecting the status quo for women of color and the girls of color under their leadership, we will to continue to fight until joy is no longer an act of resistance for women of color anywhere.
Our Mission
We recruit and retain Black, Indigenous, Women of Color and then equip women with the mentorship, training, leadership and career development pathways so their students will experience the impact of a thriving woman of color leading in classrooms, schools and communities.
Our Approach
Black Indigenous Women of Color sign up for membership using the Profound Ladies website. Once a member they are connected to a broader community where they have access to mentorship (through an impact leader), ongoing connectedness and access to training to resources (through annual conferences and cohort development opportunities), career development, and a broader sense of purpose given the community of women they are serving alongside.
82% of the teaching force
is occupied by White Women. This statistic is disproportionate to the percentage of students of color in American schools to date. Profound Ladies works to contribute to diversifying the teaching force, by strengthening the teacher pipeline, and creating the conditions for BIPOC women, who are in education, to thrive in a system, built without them in mind. The work we do, creates a thriving network for our women to connect to making teaching sustainable. In creating sustainability, where turnover for Black, Indigenous Women of Color higher comparatively to White women, we are working to ensure students have the opportunity to learn from BIPOC woman. Our students deserve both the mirrors and windows in their education experience. You can be a part of that!