Across the world, women are carrying rising violence, shrinking rights, economic pressure, and deep isolation.
At the same time, they're already doing their best: organizing care networks, mentoring youth, strengthening communities.
What's been missing isn't passion or leadership ability.
It's infrastructure — the dependable structure that helps women act, connect, and sustain change.
Solena exists to provide exactly that.
A world where women have equal power, opportunity, and safety, supported by strong local community and global solidarity.
A global backbone for women's local leadership
Solena Collective is a nonprofit building the infrastructure women need to organize locally, learn globally, and take collective action for gender equality.
We support locally led women's Circles with practical tools, training, safety and care systems, shared learning, and cross-cultural connection. Each Circle is rooted in its local community and focuses on a gender-equality issue chosen by the women involved.
Rather than running one-size-fits-all programs, Solena strengthens women's capacity to lead locally and share knowledge across borders. Our role is to provide the structure, resources, and learning systems that help locally driven initiatives become safer, stronger, and more sustainable.
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Solena Collective includes locally led Circles, a Learning Network of mission-aligned organizations, and shared global infrastructure. Together, these parts advance Solena’s purpose: promoting gender equality and strengthening women’s capacity to take collective action.
Shared support for local action and global learning
Locally led groups of women
Mission-aligned organizations sharing knowledge and resources
Gender equality–focused organizations, educators, trainers, researchers, sector experts, movement allies, and infrastructure contributors.
Where Solena’s work takes root
Where Circles act, collaborate, and create change
Creating
Outcomes that build over time
Learning, insights, and impact loop back to strengthen the ecosystem.
The name Solena comes from sol and luna — the sun and the moon.
Across cultures, they represent renewal, cycles, and the shared forces that shape our lives. Together, they symbolize connection: different sources of light for humanity, each powerful on its own but interconnected.
Solena reflects the idea behind our movement: women linking across communities and borders, forming a constellation of leadership and support that no one person or place could create alone.
Many lights, growing brighter together.
Solena was co-founded by two women who have spent years supporting other women, in very different environments and realities.
U.S. / France
Janice has spent over a decade building women's communities, designing global programs, and leading nonprofit organizations. She previously founded and scaled one of the U.S.'s largest women-in-tech movements, working across cities and countries to create opportunities for girls and women in STEM. Her work focuses on community-led leadership, global learning systems, and building structures that help women lead change.
Kenya
Ruth is a community organizer, mentor, and advocate for young mothers and women in low-resource contexts. She has led grassroots initiatives supporting women's livelihoods, safety, and economic stability, and brings deep experience in navigating the realities women face in rural and underserved communities. Ruth anchors Solena's work in cultural nuance, dignity, and practical, community-rooted leadership.
Women everywhere are carrying more responsibility with fewer supports. Violence is rising, rights are rolling back, and economic pressures are tightening — but the instinct to connect, protect, and act has never been stronger. Across cultures, women are already building solutions; what's been missing is the structure that connects their efforts and sustains them.
Solena is that structure — and this is the moment to shape it.
Nonprofits and community organizations can strengthen Circles by sharing tools, training, guides, research, or community-tested approaches.
Collaborate with SolenaHelp build the global systems, tools, and community behind the movement.
Learn about joining the founding teamBe part of the first wave of Solena Circles launching in 2026.
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