Team Emancipate’s Toia Potts, who is also a former Justice League Fellow, led this year’s inaugural Family Justice League Cohort, bringing her lived experience and leadership to help build and strengthen an impacted parent track rooted in healing, advocacy, and collective action.
Gathering during the Black Mothers March, the cohort came together for its first intentional in-person three-day weekend retreat. Toia created a sacred space for restoration, reflection, and community among impacted mothers and families.
Together, six cohort members and their families continued the ongoing fight against systems that have too often questioned their worth, separated families, and denied Black mothers the dignity of being recognized as capable, loving, and deserving.
Through storytelling, collective action, and truth-telling, the cohort marched to expose the realities of family separation while reclaiming the narrative around Black motherhood, resistance, and family preservation. Cohort members left feeling renewed, affirmed, deeply connected, and reminded that they do not carry this work alone.