2025 Impact: Local Roots, Global Impact
In 2025, BRIDGE’s work continued to stretch and grow across local, national, and global landscapes. In Amsterdam, our Co-Founder and CEO Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant joined global Black feminist leaders, artists, and cultural workers for Minor Music: End of the World—a gathering that affirmed that the questions we hold here about grief, imagination, climate, and community are shared worldwide. We also presented BRIDGE’s model of cultural organizing, healing, and racial equity at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, where funders and cultural leaders recognized our approach as visionary and urgently needed. Ongoing connections and inspiring conversations with visionary writers and theorists like Saidiya Hartman and Michelle Alexander further underscore a simple truth: BRIDGE’s work is not peripheral. It is essential—rooted locally, resonating globally.
Our multicultural home is part of a much larger movement, pushing forward for systemic change, collective care and shared liberation.
Our multicultural home is part of a much larger movement, pushing forward for systemic change, collective care and shared liberation.