What Is FierceforBlackWomen.com?
Fierce is an exciting and unique digital network designed to captivate busy, dynamic black women in the prime of their lives. Fierce celebrates the joys of life as a black woman in ways that acknowledge our unique culture, while offering the latest advice on staying healthy, fit and fabulous. As the only site with a commitment to investigative reporting, hard news, fact-based consumer reporting and fascinating features on the health needs and interests of black women, Fierce fills a major void in the women’s media landscape.
What’s in Fierce?
This interactive and engaging site will be filled with accessible, highly credible and compelling information about how black women can take charge of their health, well-being, relationships, finances and more. Most of all, we will engage women in this conversation, across digital platforms and face to face, so that we can inspire each other with new ideas and solutions to living our healthiest lives. Additional content will highlight fitness, nutrition, beauty, healthy travel and spirituality.
Who Is the Fierce Woman?
She’s you. She’s me! As part of the most successful, highly educated and independent generation of black women in history, the Fierce woman makes every effort to live a full, rich, balanced life that cannot be defined by narrow stereotypes. She has arrived or is striving to fulfill her dreams, because she’s proactive. Determined to be in charge of her well-being, she is in search of real-life solutions to wellness and fitness in ways that resonate with her culture, her heritage, her world.
For more information and inspiration, read The Fierce Manifesto!
Who’s Behind Fierce?
Fierce is for black women by black women. It is led by veteran journalists who are experts in health, fitness and social media. Editor-in-Chief Sheree Crute is an award-winning journalist with decades of experience exploring health and medicine in books, magazines and online. Publisher Yanick Rice Lamb is an award-winning journalist with three decades of experience successfully launching digital and print media platforms. Together, they are building Fierce into an exciting digital home for women who want to live their best lives.
Meet the Fierce Team!
Click each name to learn more, and go to the Contributors page meet other fierce women. To join our Fierce Circle of Sisters, check out our Community section.
Sheree Crute, Editor-in-Chief
Yanick Rice Lamb, Publisher
Ingrid Sturgis, CTO/Web Consultant, Digital Diva Inc.
Gina Toole Saunders, Contributing Designer, Crazy Creative Studio
Nicole Crawford-Tichawonna, Web Producer and Associate Editor
Joyce E. Davis, Editor-at-Large
Karen Taylor Bass, Public Relations and Marketing Consultant, Taylor Made Media LLC
The Fierce Advisory Council
These experts are leading Fierce Ambassadors who write, review copy, share input on the latest research, and participate in chats, webinars, other online forums and events)
Anowa Adjah, ACE
CEO, Powerhouse Physiques LLC
Expert: Fitness, Weight Loss, Personal Training
Michelle Albert, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
University of California San Francisco Cardiology
Expert: Stress and cardiovascular disease in women
Ann Smith Barnes, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Expert: Obesity in Black women
Pamela Braboy Jackson, PhD
Professor of Sociology
Inaugural Director
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Indiana University
Expert: Health and the Black middle class paradox
Rovenia Brock, PhD
Dr. Ro, “America’s Nutrition Coach”
Founder, Everything Ro; Consultant for Dr. Oz and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine
Expert: Nutrition, Weight Loss, Fitness
Verna Keith, PhD
Professor
Chair, Department of Sociology
Texas A & M University
Expert: Black women and depression
Linda James Myers, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Ohio State University
Expert: Psychology, culture and race
Deborah Owens, MBA
CEO, Owens Media Group LLC
“America’s Wealth Coach”
Expert: Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance
Brenda Wade, PhD
Creator and Founder of the Love, Money & Seva Seminars
Expert: Individual, Family
Psychology; Relationships
We welcome your input and inquiries — fierceforblackwomen@gmail.com
Advertising Inquiries
Fierce can accommodate all of your advertising needs, including custom programs; sponsorships; display ads for videos, slideshows or mobile; social media marketing; native advertising; product sampling; contests; polling; research; signage; and events that maximize real-time customer engagement across social networks and media platforms.
For advertising or other matters, please contact us at fierceforblackwomen@gmail.com
