Each One Teach One
BROWN GIRLS CLIMBING PROGRAM
Our Story
Our vision to close the nature, recreation and adventure gap; elevating Black and Brown joy, starts with the youngest generation through education, imploring sportswomanship, and cultivating a viable community culture inherent of diversity. Brown Girls Climbing is the nature-based adventure leadership program elevating girls of color in sports and outdoor recreation in the United States. Brown collectively represents the primary investment focus of the spectrum of a multi-diverse diaspora. Prioritizing social-emotional development, centering strength, independence and autonomy of Girls we expand representation and opportunities for full participation of exploration. Historically, female heroines from Queen Amanirenas of Kush to Harriet Tubman have have climbed great hills, mountains and rocks to freedom. With the Each One, Teach One philosophy deeply rooted into the fabric of our program, Climbing is more than a metaphor, it’s our inspiring motivation for a future of equal access for the next generation.
“My daughter has been with Emily since she was six years old, and the experience has been profoundly transformative—far beyond outdoor skill-building alone. Through rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, surfing, paddleboarding, kayaking, rope work, and equestrian experiences, Emily created spaces where a Brown girl could see herself as capable, confident, and fully belonging in environments where she is often underrepresented. The psychological and emotional impact of this representation—building self-trust, leadership, and a strong sense of identity—has been just as meaningful as the physical skills gained. Emily’s mentorship has been instrumental in supporting my daughter’s growth into a grounded, capable, compassionate, and self-assured young woman.
After 25 years establishing an independent top 5 ranked youth team of elite youth and ability climbers in Atlanta, Georgia, Coach Emily Taylor and young daughter sovereignly travelled 2 months across America curiously exploring every stop. Through the journey, her daughter fell in love with adventure, exploration and finally rock climbing.
Arriving in the Bay Area, her daughter took up an interest in climbing and noticed immediately the lack of any Black girl inclusion or representation and started inviting friends to join. Not long after a group of six girls met every Thursday. Brown Girls Climbing Program fostering community, elevating diversity, providing fitness and social emotional development formed providing free instruction to Black and Brown girls.
Our Journey
Just as the sovereign joy and pride of community started flourishing, the hosting gym banned the Brown Girls Climbing using systemic racial practices delegated by corporate gym industry. With help of dedicated parents, the program restructured to provide access to nature based adventures. The pivot turned out to be the best discovery in independence and foster. All encompassing aspects of climbing is the root metaphor of our program and the fabric of this vision is resilience. What began as a passion project has evolved into something more. We’re proud of where we’ve been, many discoveries have come from our reliance on each other and nature for joy and peace.
We specialize in bridging the adventure gap of accessibility, equity, and inclusion with the vision of unapologetic sovereign joy with our community.
Bridging the
Adventure Gap
Brown Girls Climbing Programs are open to gender expansive, non-binary participants of the Global Diaspora. Welcome, included, accepted and respected are transgender girls, gender-fluid/expansive and non-binary human beings
Inclusivity Pioneers
What We Do
Brown Girls Climbing Programs is a mindful nature-based adventure program. The program promotes sovereign joy of exploration fostering self-determination, leadership by bridges opportunity, education and experience through nature and movement.
The program includes a weekly multi-tier youth team and summer enrichment camps inclusively elevating all girl-identifying and gender expansive people of color.Our Program
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Reaching New Heights
Brown Girls Climbing invites the whole self into a comfortable, encouraging environment. We have cultivated a positive learning space of patience and compassion.
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Exploration & Discovery
Participants learn valuable tools to connect with voice, body and confidence through the earth. Our exploration creates the opportunity for girls to mindfully challenge themselves, take away and enhanced the emotions they experience in challenging situations.
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Mindful Connections
Brown Girls Climbing is a comfortable and encouraging environment for girls to take on new challenges. Our girl-positive program is mindfully intended to incorporate the overwhelming health benefits of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual expose to nature and the outdoors.
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Leadership Development
Each one Teach one ideologies builds confidence in leadership, social emotional growth, acceptance of learning styles and cohesion in collaborative roles.
Brown Girls Climbing
Team Program
Brown Girls Climbing Team for ages 7+ meets weekly throughout the academic year. The multi-tier team program host safely sequenced practice building confidence and community through nature based exploration, excursions, camping trips, competitions and so much more.
Community Outreach
Events • Activities
Brown Girls Climbing
2026 Summer Camps
Our summer camp series returns for the 11th summer of funbridging an all access adventure experience, uniquely sharing the joy of summer, mindfulness of self in nature, and empowerment of girlhood in nature-based activities.
Nature City Camp
2026 Summer Camp
This is an all-access week opportunity to celebrate the rich diversities of being just who we are in community together. Centering LGBTQ families and boys of color this camp is full of teachable moments through collaboration and sovereign joy. Nature City Camp is truly a space to let go and play.
We’re out in community! We host workshops and events for BIPOC families, community volunteer, support in conscious activism of equal access and environmental justice and educated as we pave the way for the next generation of explorers.
Brown Girls Climbing Program Calendar
We Matter
Emily Taylor
FounderPioneers of Exploration.
Woman Black-owned, led, operated. 30 years exp.All coaches of colorCulturally Conscious Nature & Adventure ImmersionExperiential LearningCommunity BuildingGlobal Majority MentorshipEnvironmental JusticeRecreation Justice Education
Film Project
Coach Emily Film
Coach Emily is currently being filmed for a documentary about the vision and creation of TayloredFit Solutions. Coach Emily Film (WT) by Pallavi Somusetty is set to release in 2026.
