Brown Girl Surf

Named in honor of Polynesia’s first female surfers, Brown Girl Surf TM is dedicated to fostering a diverse, alternative women’s surf community in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.

We do this by offering surf lessons locally, to introduce women and girls of all ages and backgrounds to the great sport of surfing. We sponsor community events and create media which celebrates female surf culture, highlights the achievements of diverse female surf pioneers, and challenges many of the pervasive media norms surrounding women’s surfing. Through the sale of our products and gear, we sponsor, support, and empower surfing women around the world who are working towards social change.

Mission:
Our mission is to elevate the historical significance of trailblazing female surfers, and to connect them with resources and support (and each other!) so they can continue making waves of change in their communities now and for generations to come.

Vision:
Brown Girl Surf TM envisions a world in which female surfers are connected, collaborative, and engaged in using surfing as a force for personal empowerment and positive social change.

The History of Women’s Surfing

The History of Women’s Surfing (launching November 2014) is committed to expanding the image and the narrative of women’s surfing through the collecting and archiving of a diverse and exhaustive range of personal histories, magazine archives and photographs, proving that women of all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds and sexualities have surfed since surfing’s inception. Our aim is to make this online archive the largest resource of women’s surf history on the planet.”

If you want to learn more of how you can contribute to this massive and important project.

Contact HWS: hwsurfin@gmail.com
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/historyofwomensurfing

The Inspire Initiative

           “Not simply to inspire, but to initiate change.”

The Inspire Initiative is a non-profit that seeks to enrich and empower women of all ages through participation in surfing while emphasizing education, media literacy and building a core community of leaders that will effect positive change in the world.

The Inspire Initiative develops and supports initiatives that provide illuminating, supportive, non-competitive environments in which women and girls can learn from each other and develop a deeply grounded sense of community and self-efficacy.

The Wahine Project

The Wahine Project is an organization that was created in an effort to reach young girls who would otherwise not have access to the resources that would allow them to surf. Whether geographical, financial or lack of opportunity, The Wahine Project seeks to break down the barriers that prevent the participation of young girls in the sport of surfing and provide them the opportunity to not only become proficient surfers but as a result of surfing, increase their awareness to their global citizenship. Through education, outreach and travel young girls will be provided opportunities that will give them a sense of social responsibility that surfing uniquely provides.

Mission statement: Inspiring a global response that Eliminates the barriers preventing a diversity of girls from a personal relation with the ocean and with one another.

Vision statement: Communities in which surfing has changed the lives of girls who use use skills learned in the ocean to overcome everyday challenges, inspired to achieve their fullest healthiest life.

The Wahine Project is an educational program for girls between the ages of 7 and 17. The girls are exposed to a carefully planned schedule of surf lesson, surf excursions, lectures and field trips, balanced with physical conditioning and ocean recreation activities. The purpose of The Wahine Project is to:

Allow access to girls in the sport of surfing who would otherwise not have the opportunity.

Focus on ocean safety and ocean recreation.

Provide education on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle thru exercise and good nutrition.

Promote positive self esteem thru the participation of sports

Develop a sense of social responsibility and environmental stewardship.