Hi.
Netherlands Black Women (NBW) is a community that facilitates belonging, promotes togetherness and creates opportunities for black women from across the diaspora living in the Netherlands to thrive.
We do this through our online presence and our offline gatherings which include brunches, discussions, book clubs, retreats, volunteering and more.
ABW Brunch, 2017
Founders
Lene Hypolite
Originally from Bermuda, Lené is a global entrepreneur, who has a passion for connecting people of the black diaspora to new and interesting things around the world. She's lived in 7 countries and understands the importance of community and solidarity no matter where we are in the world.
Tracian Meikle
Tracian Meikle is a lover and facilitator of imaginative community building, seeking to celebrate and fortify the transformative energy of Black togetherness and creativity. Hailing from Jamaica, she has called Amsterdam home for over six years. She is a researcher and practitioner in the arts and is presently the co-coordinator of the Unsettling Program, a program for radical inclusivity at the art institutions - Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.
Marly
Pierre-Louis
Marly Pierre-Louis is a writer, creative strategist and community cultivator originally from Brooklyn, currently living in Amsterdam. Marly’s work seeks to create intentional space for Blackness through the collaging and interpreting of our culture and traditions.
Marly’s also a co-editor and strategist for Versal, a community centered publishing press in Amsterdam. Marly sits at the feet of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Hip Hop. She is a first generation Haitian-American, a big sister, a mother and a Taurus through and through.