WELCOME TO ELYNN&ROSE

YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE ENOUGH. YOU MATTER.

Named for the women in my family, Elynn&Rose honors and celebrates the journey that is womanhood and girlhood. I created Elynn&Rose out of my own desire to explore what it means to be a woman in America. Not only am I a woman, but I am a Black woman, a mother, an entrepreneur, and a creative. Shortly after having my daughter Amina, I began to question how I could find balance within all of these roles and identities. This questioning led me to have many conversations with women like myself, who were charting their own paths through womanhood. Women who were mothers, activists, community leaders, creatives, educators, entrepreneurs, explorers, trailblazers. These women were my constant inspiration and I wanted to create a platform where they could be celebrated and where the knowledge that they had acquired could be shared with the next generation. This was the birth of Elynn&Rose and from that came other ventures including Vote Local, We Are Magic, and Art.Culture.Craft.

It has not been an easy road to get here. I’ve started and stopped, and started again many times. What keeps me going is knowing that I am not alone in this journey. There have been many times when we’ve come up short, faced obstacles, made incredible mistakes, and wondered how we could get back on the right path. In those moments just know that you are loved, you are enough, and you matter. Your voice matters, your creativity matters, your ideas matter, and you are enough- just as you are.

Viola Ratcliffe