Jobs at BlackFem

At BlackFem, through Chloe B. McKenzie’s research, we believe the greatest influence on a person's or community's wealth-building capability is NOT financial knowledge or literacy. In fact, financial literacy is fundamentally oppressive and rooted in white supremacy (here's why). The greatest influence is Financial Trauma. Financial trauma is the result of unspeakable and incomprehensible events and experiences like slavery and it is also the result of mundane but terrible events and experiences like daily compounding interest. The cycle of triggers and reactions are driven largely by our economic system, which places the burden of ending or overcoming (economic) inequities on the people who suffer from them the most. The incidents that trigger and remind us of this burden causes traumatic (financial) stress, which makes it so painful, scary, and/or destructive to fully participate in the national economy.