Shaping how to design and sustain systems change.
Woven is a community-rooted intermediary that connects lived experience with institutional systems.
We work alongside communities, organizations, academic partners, healthcare systems, and policymakers to translate real-world knowledge into research, accountability, and action that transforms inequitable systems.
why we weave
Healing Through Accountability
We embrace accountability as a form of healing, learning from our past to co-create more equitable futures.
Collaboration Over Competition
We work in solidarity, not scarcity, and believe that collective power yields the deepest impact.
Community is Our Compass
We center community knowledge, leadership, and lived experience in everything we do, from design to decision-making.
Liberatory
Imagination
Innovation begins with radical hope and an unflinching belief in what's possible.
Justice Is The Journey
We pursue reproductive justice not as a destination but as a constant practice.
who we work with
Our partners span sectors and disciplines, united by a shared commitment to accountability and systems change.
Communities and Coalitions
We work alongside community members and grassroots coalitions to ensure lived experience guides decision-making and systems design.
Healthcare and Public Health
We partner with healthcare and public health organizations to align care delivery, research, and policy with community needs and accountability.
Academic and Research Institutions
We collaborate with academic partners to support ethical, community-led research, evaluation, and learning.
Philanthropic Partners
We engage with philanthropic organizations committed to funding work that centers equity, care, and long-term systems change.
Pictured in Nairobi, Kenya with Jedidah Maina, Executive Director of The Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health.
a note from the founders
This work is personal. Not in the way people say that about a job they love, but in the way that your life, your family, your lineage, and everything your people survived and built before you becomes the reason you show up. That is where Woven started.
We did not set out to be a bridge. We became one. Over time, through earning trust with communities who had every reason to be skeptical of systems, and with institutions who had never been asked to share power, we learned that we occupied a space that did not have a name yet. We are neither a community-based organization nor an institution. We are something built from the middle, shaped by our lived experiences inside these systems, the knowledge our communities carry, and the academic training we brought with us.
Getting here wasn't clean. It came from being harmed inside these systems, from the wisdom of ancestors and Black feminist thought leaders, and from an honest reckoning with what community and institutions each protect and why. We had to understand what both systems value and how they communicate, then bring that understanding back to the middle.
We built Woven because this work needed a home that was as accountable as it was ambitious. And we believe that when people who care about justice find each other and weave their knowledge together, something shifts. We hope you feel that too. We hope it moves you to keep going.
-Kiara and Zainab
weave with us
Woven will work with you toward accountability, partnership, and the courage to redesign how power moves. Get in touch.