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When Black women walk, things change

When personal health becomes collective power.

You’ve built the habit. You’ve found your crew. Now comes the part where GirlTREK members take everything they’ve built — the discipline, the relationships, the sisterhood — and turn it outward. SOLVE is where the walk becomes a movement and the movement becomes change.

 

Now Introducing: The Joy & Justice Academy

Aligned with GirlTREK’s mission to Walk, Talk, and Solve problems in our neighborhoods, the Joy and Justice Academy is a virtual, cohort-based training program that equips members with the leadership and organizing skills needed to spark meaningful community change, all grounded in the priority areas of GirlTREK’s 10-Point Plan for Joy and Justice.

The inaugural Academy cohort will train (32) members across 4 select cities in advocacy and organizing skills that will equip them to find their voice, build collective power and lead community change in a 16-week course from February 2027 - May 2027.

Interested in learning more about the program and submitting an application to join the inaugural cohort? Click the FAQs below to learn more and apply today.

Sisterly Note: For this inaugural cohort, we will only be accepting applications from GirlTREK members who live in the following cities: Houston, TX, Chicago, IL, Montgomery, AL, and Newark, NJ.

Accepting applications beginning October 1

Academy Overview & FAQs

The 10-Point Plan for Joy and Justice

GirlTREK's SOLVE work is guided by our 10-Point Plan for Joy and Justice — a member-driven advocacy agenda built around the issues most impacting the health, safety, and wellbeing of Black women and girls across America. It connects what your crew is doing locally to a national movement that is pushing for systemic change.

Read our 10-Point Plan

Where to next?

Start

Your Journey

Get connected to your region, find your community, and set yourself up to begin.

Walk your

way to health

Build a daily walking habit with tools, challenges, and sisters who will keep you moving.

TALK

with your crew

Find your people. Join or start a crew in your area, walk together on Sisterhood Saturdays, and support each other.
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SOLVE for

your community

Show up for your community through place-based projects and local advocacy.