BGFW 2025

Black Girl Freedom Week 2025!

To commemorate five years of Black Girl Freedom Week, we’re looking back on past panels that exemplify the joy and power of our annual celebration of Black girls and gender-expansive young people. All of our past Black Girl Freedom Weeks are up on our YouTube channel, so we encourage you to browse through these incredible conversations with industry leaders, organizers, and young people. We’re so grateful to all our collaborators who have made each Black Girl Freedom Week an unforgettable event, and we look forward to many more opportunities to celebrate Black girls and gender-expansive youth in years to come. 

2024

Tune into this conversation that makes sense of the conditions needed to create the landscapes for Black girls and gender-expansive youth to thrive, from investment to pay equity. Speakers include Mikaila Ulmer, Monica James, and Malikah Berry-Rogers.

2023

A conversation questioning the meaning of an abundant future for Black girls, femmes, and gender expansive youth of Color with moderator Solace Mensah-Narh (G4GC Data Analyst), and members of the Future Economy Lab, Kamariah Walata, Mahoro Amani, Savanna, and Kennedy McDaniel.

2022

A conversation with Tracee Ellis Ross (award-winning actress, producer, and CEO), Anyia Williams (student, model, and visionary), and Ebony Morris (student and artist) about the narrative and culture shifts needed in the fashion and beauty industries to demonstrate accountability to Black girls, femmes and gender-expansive youth as consumers and entrepreneurs.

2021

Explore the importance of wellness, and what healing means for Black girls. With youth members of A Long Walk Home and its Executive Director and co-founder, Scheherazade Tillet, who is also a co-founder of Black Girl Freedom Fund.