SisterWalks is a series of community walks in the San Francisco Bay Area designed to center Black mamas and Black maternal health, hosted by the Center for Birth Justice and SisterWeb Community Doula Network. This series is inspired by the immense healing benefits of walking, allowing unnecessary energy generated by trauma or stress to be released from the body. We recognize that birthwork, advocacy, pregnancy, and motherhood are all labors of love, and we hope to create a space where our body’s movement in nature can create a movement of Black joy.
In a world that often pulls us in a million directions, SisterWalks is a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with nature, with joy, and most importantly with each other. Whether you’re a new or expecting mother, a birth worker, or simply someone passionate about Black maternal wellness, we welcome you to join us!
Thursday, April 17
11:45 am – 1:00 pm
John McLaren Park
100 John F Shelley Drive
San Francisco, CA 94134
We are hosting our first walk during Black Maternal Health Week 2025 on Thursday, April 17th. SisterWalks: Movement for Black Maternal Joy will take place at the beautiful John McLaren Park near the Bayview and Visitacion Valley in San Francisco. We encourage you to come rocking your favorite shade of purple!
In addition to SisterWalks, we encourage you to engage with these other Black-centered outdoor movements:
Outdoor Afro celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature. Their national not-for-profit organization reconnects Black people to our lands, water, and wildlife through outdoor education, recreation, and conservation. Some examples of Outdoor Afro’s year-round activities range from fishing, hiking, biking, kayaking, gardening, skiing, and more.
GirlTrek is a life-saving sisterhood. They are a global movement of Black women leveraging the historic legacy of walking and the power of self-care as a pathway to heal and transform our lives. GirlTrek believes walking 30 minutes a day is a radical act of self-love and the root of a cultural revolution.
T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae, founders of the health nonprofit GirlTrek, are on a mission to reduce the leading causes of preventable death among Black women — and build communities in the process. How? By getting one million women and girls to prioritize their self-care, lacing up their shoes and walking in the direction of their healthiest, most fulfilled lives.