“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not to struggle, then dammit, you don’t deserve to win”

Chairman Fred Hampton

“When We Fight, We Win”

Fox Rich

About educate2elevate

educate2elevate was created when founder, ayoola mitchell, continued to experience Black and Brown communities and families, including her own, be harmed by systems and the people who work in them.  Initially, ayoola’s vision for e2e was to connect people with resources and support systems. However, ayoola’s efforts were derailed when her family was impacted by trauma and tragedy in three times in less than five years.

Trauma and tragedy will forever change one’s life. When tragedy struck her family, ayoola’s goal from day one was healing for her family. Through her journey as a Healing Practitioner, ayoola, again, experienced the harm by systems to the people who often need the most support with the fewest resources. Ultimately it was ayoola’s personal fight back from a mental health crisis that spurned the relaunching of educate2elevate. Always a fierce advocate for others, she found advocating for herself was often misconstrued as being difficult. Yet, it wasn’t her navigating over 12 agencies and entities on her mental health recovery journey. It was her constant thoughts, almost obsessively, of those who could not advocate for themselves.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Assata Shakur

Mission Statement

e2e is committed to the political and socio-mental education of those harmed by systems. We do this by connecting historical trauma and oppression to present day harm and constant disparity in treatment by most amerikkkan systems (and the people working in them). e2e organizes, educates, advocates and trains families, communities and people who work in systems to challenge systems which put paper and policies over the needs of the people.