Meet our interns: Part 2

Tichana Mone Bailey oversees Women Empowering Women- Diamonds in the Rough’s Public Relations. Which means she oversees the social media and creates advertisements. Currently she is working on the Sister’s Rocking the Community event. She has created almost all the advertisements you see on our social media, the program for the event, and wrote all...

W.E.W wishing you a happy Thanksgiving

We at Women Empowering Women want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. We hope it is full of family, love and good food. Thanksgiving is time to reflect and understand the value of family, related by blood or not. Your family are the ones who are there for you no matter what and always...

Sisters

Me and you be sisters We be the same.   Me and you Coming from the same place.   Me and you Be greasing our legs Touching up our edges.   Me and you Be scared of rats Be stepping on roaches.   Me and you Come running high down Purdy street one time And...

“Girls, Girls, Girls”

Imagine you're driving down a major road and you keep seeing billboards full of women from the male gaze. This is what Emily Herr, a recent VCU grad, was seeing, but she decided to do something about it. She created a project called “Girls! Girls! Girls!”, with the purpose of showing how she sees women....

WEW Products

Women Empowering Women is an organization that aims to help women discover their full potential in everyday life. This effort is also seen in the products they sell. Products include two royal purple shirts with different inspirational sayings and an inspirational mug. When asked about branding, Galanda Simmons, WEW’s founder said she selected the color...

Sumayya Sulaiman, Women in the Community

Sumayya Sulaiman is the acting community outreach coordinator for WEW’s Northern Virginia Chapter. While attending VCU she became a member of WEW. After attending meetings and getting to know founder and CEO, Ms. Galanda Simmons, her passion for the organization grew. When she moved back to the Northern Virginia area to pursue midwifery she brought...

G’s Inspirational Corner

Develop a personal relationship with God. Never allow another person to talk for you, think for you, or define you. When life gets hard go to a quiet place to talk to your Creator, bow down to him and listen to his sweet sovereign voice. Then get up and shake yourself loose and walk in confidence...

Poetry Corner: Beautiful World

It's such a blessing to be alive To wake up and look at the sky To touch God's hands In our own ways Beautiful world filler with Beautiful things So I ask the one up above to Show me some clarity to fill in The suds I cannot see clearly yet But I will never...

Meet our Interns

Whitney Lisa Diaz is a senior at Virginia Commonwealth University who is currently interning at Women Empowering Women-Diamonds in the Rough, a Richmond based organization whose goal is to help local women feel empowered and find their goal in life. She was born in Queens, New York and lived there until she was 10 years...