brown girl surf FAQs

1. Wait, aren’t you now Salted Roots?

No. brown girl surf has existed since 2011 as its own platform. The San Francisco Bay Area community programs focused on surfing and advocacy that were collaboratively developed with brown girl surf and various partners since 2014, rebranded to Salted Roots in 2023. While brown girl surf and Salted Roots share a legacy, they are separate entities.
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You can read more about the founding history of brown girl surf here.

2. Why is your website www.browngirlsurf.co and not www.browngirlsurf.com?

​browngirlsurf.com currently redirects to Salted Roots, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit surf project that brown girl surf helped start in 2014. The project operated under brown girl surf's identity until rebranding in 2023.

While we have been ready to receive the return of browngirlsurf.com, for now, the official site of brown girl surf is browngirlsurf.co. Our site includes official archives of our work in our history of brown girl surf page, as well as a comprehensive press archive dating back to 2012.

3. Does brown girl surf teach surfing?

No. brown girl surf was originally founded as a platform to raise visibility of diverse voices in surf and ocean spaces—not as a surf program. When people began contacting us for lessons, our model was to connect them with surf instructors in our network.

We later collaborated with partners like The Wahine Project to support changemakers creating ocean-centered projects for women and girls (see Ocean Days and Bangladesh Surfer Girls' Project).

If you're interested in surfing, we recommend you check out our community page for local surfing resources.