We work across community, care, and advocacy to expand access to culturally relevant autoimmune and chronic illness support.

Partnerships and  Coalitions

Working Together for Better Outcomes

These partnerships support program delivery, community engagement, and education across the work.

Strategic & Community Partners

Autoimmune Wellness is a trusted leader in lifestyle-based autoimmune support and evidence-informed patient education. As long-time advocates for empowering individuals through nutrition, self-advocacy, and community support, they help expand awareness and practical tools for living well with autoimmune disease.

Through research-backed education and a commitment to inclusivity, they partner with us to ensure that BIPOC and underserved voices have access to high-quality resources and community-centered wellness pathways.

Autoimmune Wellness

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The AIP Summit

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The AIP Summit played a key role in launching the AIP BIPOC Roundtables in 2022, helping spark the conversations that grew into our network.

Today, the Summit continues to support our work by hosting roundtable discussions and amplifying diverse voices in the autoimmune space.

Our partnership reflects a shared commitment to education, representation, and community-centered healing.

Bee Busy Wellness Center

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Bee Busy Wellness Center is a federally qualified health center serving communities across Houston through accessible, community-based care.

Through this partnership, we support outreach, education, and connection to services that meet people where they are, strengthening pathways to care and long-term health outcomes.

Cynaera

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Cynaera leads research initiatives focused on improving representation and closing gaps in data, including the EVE Research Project.

Through this partnership, we support efforts to elevate lived experience in research, increase participation from underserved communities, and ensure that the data shaping care reflects the realities of those most often overlooked.

Journal My Health

journalmyhealth.com

Journal My Health supports the EVE Research Project by providing tools for symptom tracking, reflection, and patient-led data collection.

Together, this work helps translate lived experience into meaningful insights, strengthening how individuals understand their health and how that data informs research and care.

MG Holistic Society

mgholisticsociety.org

MG Holistic offers integrative approaches to chronic and autoimmune care, focusing on whole-person wellness.

Our partnership supports expanding access to holistic care practices and connecting individuals to supportive, wellness-centered resources.

Houston Health

houstonhealth.org

The Houston Health Department works to protect and improve community health through public health programs, prevention, and outreach.

Through this partnership, we collaborate on community engagement, health education, and connecting residents to resources that support access, prevention, and care.

Hester Mitchell

Soles 4 Soul

Hester is an Urban Soul line dance instructor who has been teaching since 2017. She recently started her own dance group after previously instructing with Lisa Laverne of Line Dance Divas of H-Town.

She teaches free community classes at Tidwell Park on Houston’s Northside on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Hester’s instruction reflects her love for line dance and her commitment to sharing movement in accessible, welcoming spaces.

Gennetta Griffin

Step Into The Rhythm

Gennetta Griffin is a line dance instructor and former educator who teaches in the Pearland and Manvel areas. After early retirement, she began volunteering in her community and spending more time doing what she enjoys most: dancing and fitness.

For the past two years, Gennetta has combined both passions by teaching line dance several times a week, primarily at inner-city libraries and local community activity centers. Her classes focus on creating a space where people can relax, have fun, and take a break from everyday stress.

Gennetta values the connection that movement creates and believes line dancing brings people together by highlighting how much we have in common.

Tiffany Wallace

Purpose Dance Academy

Tiffany Wallace is the owner and lead instructor of Purpose Dance Academy in Missouri City, Texas. She opened the studio in 2014 and teaches line dance classes and private events through the academy.

She is a former Texas Southern University Motion dancer and a former WNBA dancer, experiences that shaped her movement background and teaching style.

Through Purpose Dance Academy, Tiffany leads structured group classes and events, sharing her experience and love of dance through choreography and instruction.

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Our partnerships reflect the work we do on the ground.

Our involvement in coalitions extends that work into broader efforts focused on research, policy, and systems change that shape access and outcomes.

Extending the Work

Coalitions & National Initiatives

We are part of broader efforts advancing health equity through policy, research, and systems-level change.

Partnership is intentional and grounded in our responsibility to the people we serve.

Partnership is not access. It is shared responsibility.

We do not engage in one-sided efforts that center visibility or reach without clear, mutual benefit to the community.

Our partnerships are built on alignment, shared work, and meaningful contribution to outcomes, not just engagement.

  • We partner to expand access
  • We partner to share knowledge
  • We partner to elevate lived experience
  • We partner to strengthen support across every part of the journey

Because lasting change takes more than one voice, one program, or one approach. It takes people, organizations, and communities working together.


How We Partner

Clear and measurable community benefit

Shared decision-making, not just participation

Community-informed from the start

Alignment Looks Like

Long-term commitment over one-time engagement

This work is grounded in our responsibility to the people we serve.

That responsibility shapes how we build, how we engage, and the standards we hold across everything we do.

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We engage in partnerships that align with our mission and reflect a shared commitment to advancing autoimmune and chronic illness care for BIPOC communities.

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