For Brown Girls

I would like to secure investment money to properly establish my business as a non-profit and as a successful, inspiring brand.

  • Stage Concept Only
  • Industry Education
  • Location Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Website forbrowngirls.com

Company Summary

For Brown Girls is an organization created to celebrate dark skin while combatting colorism and promoting self love.. It's important because it helps to build self confidence in girls who may not like the color of the skin and help them to see their beauty. My customer is any girl who is unaccepting of her dark skin, but the overall message FBG promotes is self love and self acceptance. Anyone can take away from that and be inspired.

Team

  • Karyn Washington
    Founder

    My name is Karyn (Kay)! I am a 21 year old college student from Baltimore, Maryland majoring in Public Relations . I created "For Brown Girls" in the summer of 2011. Being a darker skinned African American female, I have been affected by shadeism and have seen other girls, particularly African and African American suffer internally over this issue. It’s been drilled into some of our minds that dark skin is unattractive by the media, our peers and

  • Karyn Washington

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