Liberation Lab- Session 2

The Liberation Lab was born from this vision, and our Summer Institute for Black Girls is its manifestation. The mission of the Liberation Lab is to cultivate a liberatory space where Black girls use their creativity to build new worlds and meaning-making through art, design, dialogue, and activism, centering joy, wellness, and collective freedom. We understand liberatory space as a space for Black girls intentionally cultivated to affirm, uplift, and nurture Black girls’ identities while fostering their critical consciousness. It is a space where Black girls are seen, heard, and valued in their full humanity, free from the constraints of dominant narratives that seek to marginalize or silence them. The Liberation Lab is about ongoing intergenerational space-making with high school leaders, undergraduate mentors, and Black women in community. Because building worlds for Black girls requires all of us.