The Foundation for Black Women's Wellness

09/05/2026

❤️ BWWDAY LABOR DAY LOVE SALE! ❤️

Community, we hear you! It’s a tough year. Resources are tight, and the need for spaces that restore, connect, and strengthen us is higher than ever.

So this Labor Day Weekend, accept this LOVE offering from us to you! ❤️

For THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND ONLY, we’re opening the doors wider with SPECIAL TICKET PRICING for the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day !

This is your opportunity to experience our most anticipated gathering of the year—a powerful day of wellness, inspiration, sisterhood, celebration, connection, and JOY!
And this opportunity won't last! Special pricing ends Tuesday, September 8 at 11:59 PM CT.

Grab your ticket AND bring your people! Your sister, your daughter, your Mama, your best friend – the women you want in the room with you!

❤️ Receive this LOVE! Grab your tickets! Meet us at BWWDAY! Register now at bwwday.org!

09/04/2026

Thank you to our new neighbors at Park Bank for stopping by today to visit us at our new South Madison office and Wellness Center! Val H. and Tracy A. bring the best energy wherever they go, and we loved sharing more about our work and mission, its origins, and our deep impact! Thank you ladies for time well spent!

09/03/2026

🔥 BWWDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🔥

We’re excited to announce our second and final keynote speaker, Rev. Marcus Allen, Senior Pastor of Madison-based Mount Zion Baptist Church, who will light up the big stage at the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day on Saturday, October 3rd!

A U.S. Army veteran who served more than a decade and completed three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pastor Allen knows something about courage, resilience, leadership, and staying grounded when the road gets hard.

Today, his leadership is deeply rooted in faith and community—bringing people together, advocating for those too often left behind, and challenging us to recognize our responsibility to one another.

At BWWDAY, Pastor Allen will invoke a powerful message for this moment: What keeps us grounded when the challenges around us feel bigger than any one of us? And what becomes possible when we refuse to face those challenges alone? Because wellness is more than what we do for ourselves – it is also how we care for one another, how we stay rooted, how we build community – and how we stand together.

Pastor Allen’s message will call us back to the power of spiritual grounding, collective responsibility, and the strength we find in one another.

Grounded in Wellness. United in Our Fight!

Bring someone you love, bring your whole heart, and join us Saturday, October 3 for a day designed to strengthen, restore, and move us forward—together.
✨ Register now! BWWDAY.ORG

09/03/2026

BWWDAY SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT!

A special thank you to Stone House Development, Inc. for their support of the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day as a Bronze sponsor!

Stone House Development continues to invest in our mission, and in their commitment to create welcoming and safe homes for local families. Their support helps to foster spaces where Black women and their families can truly thrive!

Learn more about sponsors of the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day and secure your ticket at bwwday.org!

09/02/2026

BWWDAY SPOKEN WORD ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: NICHELLE NICHOLS! ✨

Some voices don’t just speak—they MOVE you.

We’re honored to welcome Nichelle Nichols back to big stage on Saturday, October 3rd as our featured Spoken Word Artist at the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day Opening Program & Keynote Luncheon!

A gifted and dynamic poet, educator, leader, speaker, facilitator, and Wisconsin native, Nichelle has spent more than two decades using her voice and leadership to advance equity, elevate community, and create spaces where families and communities can thrive. Nichelle has led and served across the nonprofit, public, and community sectors, advancing equity, strengthening families and communities, developing leaders, elevating community and youth voices, and helping institutions turn commitments to equity into meaningful action.

Her leadership has advanced community-centered change within the Madison Metropolitan School District, serving community through elected leadership on the MMSD Board of Education, including as former Board President, and serving as a past president of the Madison Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®. Today, Nichelle brings her experience to leaders, districts, and communities across the country—continuing a career centered on bringing people together, shifting systems, and creating spaces where people feel seen, valued, and empowered to thrive.

But at BWWDAY, we get to experience another powerful dimension of Nichelle: the artist. Through words that affirm, heal, challenge and inspire, she reminds us of the power of our stories—and the power of our voices.

Nichelle knows the power of words to ground us, to move us, to unite us -- and we can’t wait to experience what she brings to the BWWDAY stage this year!

Bring your sister, your auntie, your neighbor, your friend——and join us on Saturday, October 3!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! BWWDAY.org

09/02/2026

✨ BWWDAY EMCEE SPOTLIGHT: T.R. WILLIAMS ✨

We’re excited to announce T.R. Williams, J.D. as the Emcee of the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day Opening Program and Keynote Luncheon on Saturday, October 3rd!

A dynamic leader, connector, attorney, entrepreneur, and longtime champion for equity, T.R.’s career spans law, government, public policy, health advocacy, development, and community leadership. As one of the few Black women to serve as a registered lobbyist in Wisconsin, she has advocated at the state and federal levels on behalf of community health centers and helped lead successful policy change to expand access to care in Wisconsin.

T.R. previously served in Governor Tony Evers’ administration and as Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. She is a 2025 State Bar of Wisconsin Trailblazer Award recipient, and a former Well Black Woman® Institute Faculty Member, helping us train and prepare health equity leaders across the state!

T.R. knows this community. She knows policy. She knows advocacy. And she knows how to bring a room together!

With her dynamic presence, sharp insight, and gift for connecting with people, we know T.R. will help make this year’s BWWDAY Luncheon an energized and unforgettable experience!

Get your ticket. Join us October 3!

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09/01/2026

BWWDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT!

We’ve been waiting to share this one! Dr. Tai is coming to BWWDAY!

We are THRILLED to announce Taisha Caldwell-Harvey, PhD—affectionately known as Dr. Tai—as a keynote speaker for the 18th Annual Black Women’s Wellness Day!
And she’s bringing a message made for THIS moment: JOY IS HOW WE SURVIVE.

A licensed psychologist, wellness consultant, and founder of The Black Girl Doctor, Dr. Tai is a powerful voice for Black women’s mental wellness and a fierce advocate for Black Joy as a social justice issue.

And right now, that message hits differently.

At a time when Black communities are navigating attacks on equity and inclusion, efforts to erase our histories and experiences, and a climate increasingly hostile to the progress we have fought so hard to achieve, protecting our individual AND collective mental wellness matters.

And so does our JOY -- not as an escape from what is happening around us, but as a source of strength, connection, resistance, restoration, and survival.

Dr. Tai reminds us that we can fight for change without losing ourselves in the process; that our joy, mental wellness, and dreams matter; and that caring for ourselves—and each other—is part of how we sustain ourselves for the work ahead.

On October 3, she’ll bring this powerful message to the BWWDAY stage!

Come get what you need. Come reconnect. Come reclaim OUR JOY!

Register now at BWWDAY.ORG!

Join The Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness for the Annual Black Women’s Wellness Day! Experience a powerful mix of information, inspiration and empowerment to catapult you into resilient, transformational living!

08/31/2026

CELEBRATING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2026!

As we close out Black Breastfeeding Week, we’re honoring a true trailblazer in Madison’s Black maternal and infant health community: Hershey Barnett-Bridges.
As a registered nurse, lactation consultant, and longtime leader of the African American Breastfeeding Alliance of Dane County, she helped create a space where Black mothers could share knowledge, support one another, and make breastfeeding work in the realities of their everyday lives.

Her work has always been bigger than breastfeeding. Ms. Hershey has helped build an intergenerational legacy of care, mentoring and encouraging the next generation of doulas, midwives, social workers, and maternal health advocates. She has been part of the foundation upon which so much of Madison’s Black birth and breastfeeding support continues to grow.

As we celebrate Black Breastfeeding Week, we’re reminded that this work is about more than feeding babies—it’s about community, culture, confidence, and making sure Black families have access to the support they deserve.
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Looking for lactation support? Contact Micaela Berry-Smith, FFBWW Director of Maternal & Child Health, at [email protected] to learn more about available support through the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness.

08/31/2026

Volunteer at the 18th Annual Black Women's Wellness Day !

Black Women’s Wellness Day takes a dedicated community of volunteers to bring the experience to life. Whether you’re signing up as an individual or bringing your church group, student organization, community organization, sorority, fraternity, or crew, there’s a place for you to serve.

Volunteers help create a welcoming, organized, and unforgettable experience for hundreds of attendees.

Ready to give back and be part of the BWWDAY experience?
Sign up today at BWWDAY.org/volunteer

08/31/2026

CELEBRATING BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2026!

We elevate our very own Director of Maternal & Child Health here at the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness, Micaela Berry-Smith! Micaela is a passionate advocate for Black maternal and infant health, working to strengthen the circle of support surrounding Black mothers, babies, and families. Her work centers the power of doulas as trusted partners in improving maternal and child health outcomes. Micaela helps make that vision real every day by connecting families to resources, supporting our growing doula community, and helping ensure Black women and families have access to care that sees, respects, and supports them.

Micaela, we celebrate YOU and the heart you bring to this work! Thank you for continuing to build a stronger circle of care for our families.
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Looking for lactation support? Contact Micaela at [email protected] to learn more about available support through the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness.