She Fights fosters empowerment through combat sports. We offer free boxing and Jiu Jitsu classes to young women ages 14-19 who come from low income backgrounds in NYC.
Our Mission
Formed in November 2016, She Fights has been offering boxing classes, and now Jiu Jitsu classes, free of charge, with the mission to give girls the opportunity to feel strong, powerful, relentless, and unstoppable, and provide for them a safe environment in which they could match that strength with vulnerability.
We have teamed up with various gyms in New York City, all who offer their space free of charge to our students. She Fights currently has a partnership with Church Street Boxing Gym and Unity Jiu Jitsu.
We have built partnerships with some of the finest gyms offering a space to practice combat sports. These partnerships have allowed us to offer free boxing and Jiu Jitsu classes to the students enrolled in She Fights.
Our bread and butter. The sport that started it all. Boxing allows our students to let out their aggression and stress in a safe and controlled environment.
We wanted to provide our students the opportunity to practice their chosen combat sport outside of our classes, allowing them to improve at a faster rate. Through our mentorship program, our students are matched with a female fighter who they meet with twice a month to practice their moves.
Jiu Jitsu is a game of strategies, where the objective is to get your opponent to submit. While fun, Jiu Jitsu also provides our students with the training necessary in real-life self defense situations.
Milenny Reynoso, She Fights Student / Read Full Article
We are continuously expanding our She Fights family. Creating more partnerships with gyms and coaches allows us to expand the number of students we can have enrolled in our program; your donations ensure we can continue offering these classes and gear free of charge to our students; and our mentors give our students the opportunity to become more proficient fighters.
If you are a gym, or a coach with access to a gym, and would like to offer free once-a-week classes to our students, we can easily set up that operation.
If you self-identify as a woman, and have at least one year of experience in your combat sport, there's a student that could use your coaching!
None of this is possible without the generosity of those who support our organization through donations. Every little bit helps.
