Press Release

On November 3, Georgia voters elected Keisha Lance Bottoms governor, the first Black woman elected governor of any U.S. state. In her victory speech, she spoke of her great-great-grandmother, born about twenty years before emancipation, and of standing on "shoulders made of steel." Those words belong to every Black woman who prayed, organized, and voted without being promised anything in return.

EWISE is proud to announce that its signature program, Black Restorative Agriculture Incubation & Development (BRAID), has received top honors in the 2025 American Advertising Awards at the local, district, and national levels.

The EcoWomanist Institute Southeast (EWISE) is proud to announce that its founder, Valerie Hill Rawls, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Womanist WARES Award by the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership (KGCCWL) at Union Presbyterian Seminary. The award was presented during the 2025 KGCCWL Biennial Conference, held May 1–3 in Charleston, South Carolina.

The EcoWomanist Institute Southeast (EWISE) is excited to announce the launch of BRAID: Black Restorative Agriculture Incubation & Development, a visionary incubator for emerging Black womanist farmers and women of color innovators. Based in Atlanta and rooted in the U.S. South, the program is now accepting applications through July 15, 2025.

[ATLANTA, GA] – EcoWomanist Institute Southeast (EWISE) will host a kick-off of a series to be developed and executed along with a...