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This Woman Turned Her Blog Into A Nonprofit That Mentors Black Girls
In 2012, Diamond Craig was lost. With a college degree in biology from York College, the then 23-year-old was stuck in a dead-end temp job with no chance of progression. It didn’t help that she was also feeling stagnant in her five-year toxic relationship with her high school sweetheart. Searching for her purpose, she decided to take her pain and channel it into a journal, but she wasn’t sitting in her room with a pen in hand. She chronicled her millennial matters online in blog form and titled it “Purposefully Pretty.”
“I wanted to see the people who were reading my blog and have a wider reach,” Craig explained. “In October of 2012 I contacted some people who had the same values as me and I asked if they wanted to come together and create a group where we could figure it out together. By November 2012 we had our first ‘Purposefully Pretty’ meeting.”
Since then, the Purposefully Pretty team, which consists of all Black women, has hosted events like the “Big Sister Brunch,” a ‘Self-Care Fair,” “TrapAerobics,” a vision board workshop and annual anniversary luncheons. Besides their “GoalsTakingAction” Mentorship program, they also have …
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