Who We Are
The Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence Resource Center is dedicated to:
Increasing awareness about the impact of intergenerational violence in the Black community.
Removing barriers for Black women who have experienced domestic abuse to receive access to culturally sensitive resources.
Providing a designated space with resources specifically for Black women in San Francisco to help educate and heal as they recover from abuse.
Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence is a grassroots, community activist movement started by Black Women Revolt Media in San Francisco, CA
Our Story
2020 left us searching for a point of clarity during a time of chaos. Geoffrea Morris and LynTise Jones were on a God-centered spiritual pilgrimage when they were forced to shelter in place during the pandemic of 2020. Geoffrea was preparing to enter her forties while my sister Lyn-Tise was embarking on entrepreneurship. Both were trying to find a greater purpose in their lives, not only within their marriages and family lives, but they wanted to find a deeper purpose within their community.
Watching George Floyd die over and over on national TV while screaming for his mother was extremely triggering for them because they had lost their baby brother, Leonard Bradley, in 2009 at the age of 16 by San Pablo police. Geoffrea and Lyn-Tise felt paralyzed and revictimized during this time. They remembered all of the community violence and domestic violence that they had witnessed while growing up. It became clear to both sisters when God gave Lyn-Tise our organization’s name, Black Women Revolt, that we were destined to speak out and raise community consciousness around issues that impact the Black community, especially domestic violence. Our tagline, “We are who we’ve been waiting for,” became our marching orders, and we have been moving forward in fulfilling them.
After working for a shelter network for 3 years, Pam had noticed that many Black women and their families didn’t have a lot of success staying in domestic abuse shelters. They would shelter hop and ultimately return home to encounter even more abuse. Pam began having conversations with shelter residents and other staff and she noticed what was missing - cultural responsiveness was not being practiced or understood by shelter staff. She also noticed that there were not a lot of Blacks that worked in domestic abuse shelters and those that did had no decision making authority.
On October 10, 2020 she saw Black Women Revolt’s video which was launched during Domestic Violence Awareness month and she instantly said, “I have these sisters and I have to work with these women!!!”
In February 2021 Geoffrea Morris, Lyn-Tise Jones, Paméla Michelle Tate, and Beverly Upton of the SFDVC met with Department of the Status of Women’s Director, Kimberly Ellis to request funding to start a Black Family Resource Center and 20 minutes into the meeting Director Ellis saw the need and pledged the seed funding to get Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence started.
In March 2021, Geoffrea, Lyntise, and Paméla launched Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence under the fiscal sponsorship of Young Community Developers, a half a century old Black-led non-profit. The founders created an 8-member Advisory Board and hired their first Executive Director, Paméla Michelle Tate.
On October 1, 2021 Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence opened its doors through a partnership with W.O.M.A.N. Inc. at 30 Boardman Street, thus becoming California’s first Black Women centered Family Violence Resource Center.
