Island Girls Rock is more than a name—it’s an affirmation

From mentorship programs and artist residencies to wellness gatherings, community events, and creative initiatives, Island Girls Rock nurtures both personal and collective empowerment. We provide opportunities for Caribbean women and girls to explore their identities, amplify their voices, and shape their futures while building a network of support across the Caribbean and its diaspora. Through our work, we honour our heritage, uplift each other, and create pathways for the next generation to dream boldly and thrive.

Founded in 2015, Island Girls Rock is an intergenerational non-profit movement and community dedicated to celebrating, supporting, and empowering Caribbean women and girls. More than an organisation, we are a global sisterhood that creates spaces for connection, collaboration, and growth through culture, creativity, and wellness.

ABOUT US

MISSION STATEMENT

Island Girls Rock is dedicated to cultivating an intergenerational community that empowers Caribbean women and girls through culture, creativity, and wellness. We create spaces for mentorship, artistic expression, storytelling, and well-being, fostering meaningful connections and opportunities for growth.

By amplifying our voices and celebrating our heritage, we inspire the next generation to move confidently in their truth, build lasting networks of support, and shape a future where Caribbean women and girls thrive.

OUR SIX PILLARS

At Island Girls Rock, we’re rooted in six guiding pillars: creativity, wellness, sustainability, joy, leadership, and community. Each one reflects our ongoing commitment to nurturing intergenerational connection, cultural care, and Caribbean girlhood and womanhood in all its richness.

These aren’t just words—we return to them often. They remind us how we want to build, how we want to feel, and how we want to hold space for each other. Whether through mentorship, making, or movement, these values are the soil we grow from.

  • JOY

    Joy is resistance, medicine, and celebration. It’s not something extra, it’s part of how we move through the world. We centre joy in our gatherings, our mentorship, our making, and our dreaming.

  • COMMUNITY

    Island Girls Rock is, at its core, a community. Intergenerational, Caribbean, and grounded in shared care. We learn from each other, lift each other, and grow together—wherever we’re planted.

  • SUSTAINABILITY

    Sustainability is a way of living and loving our land, our culture, and each other. We encourage conscious choices and creative solutions that protect our environment and honour ancestral knowledge.

  • LEADERSHIP

    We nurture leadership that looks like listening, care, collaboration, courage, and curiosity. From the quiet leaders to the bold ones, we believe in creating space for girls and women to shape their communities in ways that feel true to them.

  • WELLNESS

    Wellness, for us, is communal, cultural, and caring. It’s about tending to our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health together. We create spaces that affirm rest, grounding, and balance as birthrights, not luxuries.

  • CREATIVITY

    We honour creativity as both heritage and healing woven into how we tell stories, make space, build futures, and imagine the world differently. From traditional crafts to emerging artforms, we support girls and women to explore and share what’s already within them.