Brunch with a bunch creates soft, healing spaces for Black women and BIPoC to connect, feel seen, and reclaim joy through shared meals and accessible outdoor activities—building visibility, belonging, and lasting community.
1. What do you offer?
Through our monthly brunches, we create soft spaces for our community members to connect over something as simple as sharing a meal. At the same time, we build touchpoints in different cities with diverse companies and develop formats that combine activities like hiking, running, painting, or pilates with brunch.
2. Why did you start your organization or initiative?
Making all spaces accessible, especially for Black women, is our first priority and one of the main reasons why our events go hand in hand with naturally creating visibility across different aspects, always with a focus on brunch.
3. What do you want to achieve with your organization or idea?
Our initiative started from simple get-togethers, just a bunch of Black women meeting to catch up and enjoy brunch together, each bringing their favorite homemade dish. Over time, the circle became bigger and through our conversations we realized how impactful these spaces had become. The touching feedback from women sharing how therapeutic our sessions were for them, how much energy they gained, and how it improved their mental health made us decide to make it bigger and accessible to everyone who wanted to be part of it.
Our goal is to create spaces where our community can simply be, without social pressure, without having to perform or educate others on how to be treated but just exist in any form and reclaim our softness.
4. What does a more equitable outdoor scene mean to you?
A more equitable outdoor scene would mean to us having moments where gatherings of BIPOC communities in nature, like hiking, picnicking, walking, or running, feel normal to everyone passing by, without being stared at or questioned.
5. Why do we need to make nature more accessible to BIPoC?
Just by BIPOC communities, like ours, being more present in nature, we start to change the narrative. The more we show up, the more awareness and demand will grow, and hopefully, the outdoor industry will begin to include and represent us as well.
6. What specifically do you want from the outdoor community and society to enable genuine participation and safe spaces for BIPoC?
To reach out to the different BIPOC communities that are already doing the work, conducting more surveys, and having conversations with different groups.
7. Which (outdoor) role models or movements have inspired you?
Blackhikegermany
8. What are your hopes for the OUTO Changemaker Program?
Visibility and reconnecting with other changemakers from the OUTO community.
9. What motivates you most about participating in the OUTO Changemaker Program?
Hopefully, we can build lasting connections and collaborate as working partners with other changemakers, for example by hosting Brunch & Tennis, Brunch & Running, or Brunch & Basketball sessions and bringing both communities together.
10. What advice would you give to others who want to promote a more inclusive outdoor scene?
There are already lots of communities doing the work. Reach out to them and include them in the processes. Choosing the right people and resources to speak to a specific audience is profoundly important.
11. Complete the sentence: Nature means to me...
Nature means finding peace together, sharing space & remembering that we all belong.
Contact:
Social media: Instagram:@_brunchwithabunch TikTok: @brunchwithabunch
Website: www.brunchwithabunch.com
