Milele Evolving

is a 501(c)(3) established in the fall of 2017 to provide: access, education, empowerment, and sevices to all seeking to live holistically and be self-sustaining.

By spring 2018 Milele Evolving was awarded a St. Louis Philanthropic Responsive grant to support “Black Girls Are Magic” Writing Club.

Milele Evolving launched “Black Girls Are Magic” Writing Club, a financial literacy/employment program on July 1, 2018 for S.H.E.R.A.H. (Sisters Helping Each Other Reach A Higer Height). The program was for a vulnerable population of Black women at a transition house with eight (8) African American women participants ranging in ages 23-45. The program was at the newly opened Joan Quinn Safe House, the transition house of S.H.E.R.A.H.

Milele coached the women in writing labs; life skills workshops; holistic living classes; and African American studies. Lessons promote self-affirming attitudes, goal-setting, budgeting, and coached the women through the self-publication process.

Milele published the first book of the project “Chana’s Grace” by Tiffany Chana Allen in 2021. Milele Evolving will be publishing a “Black Women Voices” a collection of poems and stories by the participants of the writing progra.