OUR MISSION 

Kyndred exists to transform the healthcare experience and outcomes for Black women across the United States.  

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Black Women Deserve Better
—And We’re Building It

For generations, Black women in the United States have had to navigate a healthcare system that was never designed with us in mind.

Our pain is more likely to be dismissed. Symptoms can go unexplained or untreated for years. And too often, getting good care requires becoming your own researcher, care coordinator, advocate, and second-opinion specialist all at once.

The consequences are well documented. Black women continue to experience profound inequities across maternal health, reproductive health, chronic disease, pain care, and beyond.

More than 22 million Black women live in the United States. Yet our health remains underserved, under-researched, and too often overlooked.

Black women are:

More than 3x as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as White women.

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More likely to develop uterine fibroids earlier, experience more severe symptoms, and carry a greater burden of the condition.

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7x as likely than White women to report being treated unfairly by a healthcare provider because of their race or ethnicity.

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The problem is not that black women need to become better at navigating a broken system.

The care has got to get better.

we built kyndred because black women deserve healthcare that notices
When something still does not add up.

When “everything looks normal” does not match what you know is happening in your body, care should be willing to look again. To ask another question. To consider what may have been missed and whether one concern could be connected to another.

It should also leave you with more than a plan on paper. You should understand what is happening, why your care team is recommending what they are recommending, and what comes next.

Today, that care includes sexual and reproductive wellness, including telemedicine medication abortion care; whole-body diagnostic support through the WTF Visit; and deeper care programs for concerns like PMOS (formerly PCOS), period problems, hormonal symptoms, gut health, and metabolic health.

At Kyndred, clinical care works alongside the support that helps care hold up in real life: personalized health education through Sugar, navigation from your Healthcare Homegirl, community through KYN, and trusted specialists and community partners through the Kyndred Care Network.

The goal is not to give you more healthcare to manage. It is to make your care easier to understand, easier to navigate, and less dependent on you holding every piece together yourself.

Black women deserve more than access to healthcare. We deserve care that works for us.

Join Our WAITLIST FOR CARE
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From Us, For You 

Kyndred is our love letter to Black women and to the younger versions of ourselves who deserved more.

Clearer answers. More time. More curiosity. Care that did not require us to work so hard to be understood.

Each of us came to this work from a different corner of healthcare and reproductive justice. Between us are years spent in clinical care, public health, behavioral health, sexuality education, community organizing, digital health, and the everyday work of helping people make sense of systems that are often harder to navigate than they should be.

What connected us was the belief that better care for Black women was possible, but it would have to be built differently.

We know that Black women have always created care for one another when formal systems did not: sharing knowledge, making referrals, asking the question someone else missed, showing up, and helping each other find a way forward. Kyndred carries that tradition with us. When we say Black women, we mean cis Black women, trans Black women, femmes, and non-binary kin across the diaspora whose health needs align with the care we provide.

We are building a holistic health home where clinical care, education, navigation, community, and trusted referrals are connected, so you are not left to make sense of the pieces on your own. A place where the full picture of your health matters: your symptoms and your goals, your hormones and your mental health, your sexual wellness and your pleasure, your family history and the life you are living now.

This is care built with Black women at the center, designed to grow with us through every season of our lives.

In fierce community, 

Brittany, Tesiah, and Kimberly

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Brittany Brathwaite

MSW, MPH

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Brittany Brathwaite is a dynamic social designer, reproductive justice activist, and Black feminist sociomedical scientist. With over a decade of experience at the forefront of reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, Brittany has supported major organizations, from Planned Parenthood Federation of America to Advocates for Youth, in crafting solutions for the most urgent issues facing reproductive health today.

  • Her deep knowledge of integrating social determinants of health innovation in both community and clinical settings shapes Kyndred’s approach to offering comprehensive and holistic care. Through her intersectional, interdisciplinary lens, Brittany ensures that our services are tailored to meet the needs of Black women and gender-expansive individuals. Her leadership is driven by the belief that health and social justice are inextricably linked.

    As CEO of Kyndred, she leads the company's pioneering mission to transform healthcare experiences for Black women through culturally responsive and comprehensive health solutions. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction, directing a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, technologists, and community advocates, and executing on the company's mission to become the leading platform for comprehensive, culturally responsive health care for Black women in the United States.

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Kimberly Peters

LCSW, M.ED, MPH, PMH-C

Co-founder & Chief Learning Officer

Kimberly Peters is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and sexual health educator with over a decade of experience spanning sexual and reproductive health, behavioral health, and public health. Her work brings together clinical practice, education, and community to make healthcare more accessible, culturally affirming, and responsive to the lives of Black women.

  • From adolescent sexual health education to hospital-based behavioral health, medical social work, and digital mental health care, Kimberly's career has centered on helping people navigate complex health experiences. Her work extends beyond direct clinical care to the design of educational programs, sexuality education curricula, and professional training.

    Through KIMBRITIVE, a sexual and reproductive health education platform and community she co-founded, Kimberly has helped bring trusted health education into the everyday lives of Black women. It’s expert-led workshops, multimedia storytelling, and signature community experiences like Paps on Tap , she has helped create spaces for honest conversations, connection, and learning beyond traditional healthcare settings.

    As Chief Learning Officer at Kyndred, Kimberly leads the company's education and community strategy, shaping Sugar and KYN as integral parts of its care model. Her work brings clinical guidance, accessible education, and community together so that support extends beyond the clinical visit. She is guided by a simple belief: Black women should never have to make sense of their health alone.

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Tesiah Coleman

MSN, AGPCNP-BC, WHNP-BC, PMH-C, CLC

Co-founder, & Chief Clinical Officer

Tesiah Coleman is a double board-certified nurse practitioner, health equity strategist, and award-winning clinical leader. Over the last decade she has led clinical strategy and operations inside high-growth digital health organizations, carrying the reproductive justice and community organizing that started her career into the care models and clinical infrastructure that let good care hold up at scale.

  • At Tia she grew the virtual clinical team 700 percent across four states and co-led the launch of maternity, psychiatry, and medication abortion services. At Violet she built the program that tied clinician training to measurable improvements in care. She founded Togather, the first CE-accredited collective care platform for clinicians, whose ALI™ framework (Anti-Racism, Liberation, Intersectionality) is used by clinical teams nationwide, and her work on anti-racist clinical practice is published in the Journal of Nursing Education.

    She has been doing a version of this work since before she had a clinical license, as a doula, a lactation counselor, and an organizer. That grounding still shapes how she practices. She designs care that is race-conscious rather than race-based, treating racism and chronic stress as clinical variables with measurable effects on the body rather than context to work around.

    As Chief Clinical Officer, Tesiah leads Kyndred's care innovation and strategy. Her job is making sure Kyndred delivers on what it promises: care that goes after root causes, holds the whole person, and is built for Black women to thrive and not just survive. Her leadership has been recognized nationally, including a 2025 Ebony Changemaker honor and features in Forbes, Elle, and Essence. She is driven by the conviction that care built for the people the system fails is better care for everyone.

We’re on a mission to make better care for Black women the standard.

Our Vision 

We envision a future where Black women can expect high-quality, culturally affirming healthcare that takes our concerns seriously, sees our health in context, and stays responsive as our needs change across the lifespan.

That means being able to say, “Something feels off,” and know someone will look closer. It means being able to talk openly about your period, your hormones, your sex life, your mental health, your medications, your family history, or your goals without having to decide which parts of your life belong in the conversation.

It means care that feels connected, not fragmented. Care that helps you understand what is happening, supports you in what comes next, and does not leave you carrying the coordination on your own.

We are building toward a nationwide, hybrid healthcare home that can meet Black women wherever we are: online, in our communities, and across every stage of our lives.

OUR APPROACH 

At Kyndred, care is more than an appointment.
Our approach is grounded in a set of principles that shape how we listen, make decisions, design care, and show up for the people who trust us with their health.

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    Unapologetic:

    We challenge what healthcare has normalized for Black women. That means questioning systems, practices, and assumptions that produce inequitable care and building something better in their place.

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    Patient-Led Care:

    You know your body, your life, and your priorities. We bring clinical expertise, but your voice belongs in every decision about your care. Good care is something we build with you, not something done to you.

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    Reproductive Justice:

    We believe people should have the information, resources, support, and freedom to make decisions about their bodies, sexuality, families and futures, on their terms. 

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    Pleasure-Centered Wellness:

    Health is more than the absence of illness. Comfort, intimacy, desire, agency, joy, and feeling at home in your body are meaningful parts of well-being too.

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    Race-Concordant Care:

    Shared identity can matter, but it is not enough on its own. Everyone delivering care at Kyndred is grounded in the Togather ALI™ approach to Anti-Racism, Liberation, and Intersectionality.

    We recognize racism, bias, chronic stress, and the conditions in which people live as forces that can shape health, and we build our care accordingly.

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    Whole-Person, Root-Cause Care

    Your hormones, metabolism, mental health, sleep, relationships, sexual health, medications, environment, and daily life can intersect.

    We look for those connections, investigate what may be driving your concerns, and build plans around more than a quick fix.

Behind the Care

Care takes a team.

We believe being well cared for can require different people, tools, and kinds of support at different moments: a clinician who listens closely and investigates thoughtfully, education that helps you understand what is happening in your body, someone who can help make the next step easier to navigate, community to learn and connect alongside, and trusted specialists when another kind of care is needed.

Kyndred brings those pieces closer together so you have more support around your care, not more to manage on your own.

Meet the Team

  • Your Kyndred Clinician

    Your clinician leads the medical work: listening to your history, evaluating symptoms, ordering and interpreting labs, making diagnoses, discussing treatment options, and building a care plan with you.

  • Your Healthcare Homegirl

    Your Healthcare Homegirl stays with you between visits.

    She helps carry the work that so often lands on patients after the appointment: coordinating labs, navigating referrals, following up on prescriptions, helping with scheduling, connecting you with resources, and making sure questions get to the right member of your care team. Healthcare Homegirl support is included with the WTF Visit, care programs, and medication abortion care.

  • Sugar

    Sugar is Kyndred’s personalized health education platform, woven into care so you can understand what is happening in your body, why it matters, and what comes next.

    Because the explanation is part of the care.

  • KYN

    KYN creates space for Black women to gather outside the clinical visit through conversation, shared learning, workshops, community experiences, and joy.

  • The Kyndred Care Network

    When your care needs to extend beyond Kyndred, our network connects you with trusted, pre-vetted specialists and community providers, from physicians and mental health providers to pelvic floor physical therapists, sex therapy, lactation consultants, doulas, and more.

build better care with us

We’re building the kind of healthcare company we wish had always existed: clinically rigorous, deeply human, culturally accountable, and ambitious about what better care for Black women can look like.

That takes great clinicians. It also takes navigators, educators, operators, community builders, technologists, strategists, storytellers, and people who understand that some of healthcare’s biggest challenges happen outside the exam room. We’re a growing company, which means there is still plenty to shape, question, and build. We value curiosity, thoughtful collaboration, clear ownership, and people who care as much about how the work gets done as why it matters.

If that sounds like the kind of work you want to help build, we’d love to hear from you.

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