Meet The Founder

My name is  Amara Bruton, and I'm the founder of

Black Girls Defying Odds. I started this sisterhood because after eight years of attending a predominately black independent school , I transitioned to a PWI . I faced racism and discrimination all throughout my freshman year. I knew I couldn't be the only girl who felt that way, and I refused to let another girl go through it without a community behind her. Black Girls Defying Odds exists so that every Black girl walking into a room that wasn't built for her a classroom, a boardroom, a school hallway has a sisterhood rooted in who she already is, not who the world expects her to become. This isn't just a program to me. It's the thing I needed and didn't have, and now I get to build it for the girls coming up behind me.

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Amara Bruton

Founder, Black Girls Defying Odds.

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