Born from nearly two decades of reproductive justice leadership, W.H.E.W. is a bold new force for the future — where healing is political, leadership is collective, and liberation is non-negotiable.

We are transforming how Black communities engage health, healing, and power — centering Black women and girls, while embracing Black men and boys as essential to our collective liberation.

To cultivate healing, health, cultural power, economic stability, and political liberation for Black communities through a womanist framework grounded in Love as Praxis and Sacred Space.

We advance reproductive justice, HIV wellness, community-led research, economic equity, and civic participation—while centering Black women and building collective accountability with Black men and boys as partners in sustaining whole, healthy communities.

We protect and affirm full bodily autonomy and dignity in all forms, ensuring that our people not only survive—but live with power, care, and self-determination.

MISSION

A NOTE OF SISTERHOOD

We measure outcomes in laughter, too.

WHEW does not merely offer services; we operate a sophisticated womanist ecosystem. We recognize that the challenges facing Black women—health disparities, economic exclusion, and political silencing—are not isolated incidents but a single, tangled web of systemic pressure. To meet this, our model integrates health, healing, economic justice, research, culture, and civic engagement into a unified, high-frequency engine for liberation.

  • Women’s Health & Evolutionary Wellness (W.H.E.W.) is a Texas‑based, Black‑women‑founded, womanist organization advancing health equity, community resilience, and democratic participation across Black communities.

    W.H.E.W. was created in response to the escalating political, economic, and health conditions facing Black women and families in Texas—conditions that demand integrated, sustainable, and community‑accountable solutions.

  • To cultivate healing, health, cultural power, economic stability, and political liberation for Black communities by advancing reproductive justice, HIV wellness, community-led research, economic equity, and civic participation - while protecting bodily autonomy and dignity in all forms.

  • W.H.E.W. operates as a womanist ecosystem, integrating health, healing, economic justice, research, culture, and civic engagement into a single, coordinated model.

    Rather than siloed programs, W.H.E.W. addresses the structural conditions shaping health outcomes by:

    • grounding interventions in lived experience

    • centering Black women as knowledge holders

    • integrating research, narrative, and policy

    • designing for sustainability and institutional protection

    This model reflects how Black communities actually experience life—and produces more durable outcomes.

  • Women’s Health & Evolutionary Wellness advances healing and power across six integrated pillars: maternal health and women’s wellness; HIV prevention, healing, and leadership development; economic justice and community stability; cultural justice and storytelling; community-led research through the Texas Health Impact Cohort (THIC); and year-round civic engagement and base-building through Our Issues, Our Vote. Together, these pillars work to strengthen bodily autonomy, economic security, narrative power, and democratic participation across Black communities.