Culturally specific appearance and identity navigation, built for Black women, by a survivor who needed it and could not find it.
Founded by Charmica Knight, a triple negative breast cancer survivor, who walked this road without a guide and decided no one else should have to.
When a Black woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, she often cannot find a guide who looks like her or understands what hair and identity mean to her. The information is generic. The support is somewhere else. And the most personal parts of the experience, the parts about how she sees herself, go unaddressed.
Vérité Navigate exists to change that. We are building the culturally specific appearance and identity support that should have been there all along. It starts with a free, fully verified guide to the organizations that help, and it grows from there.
A verified, living directory of the people, products, and places that support women through breast cancer, centered first on Black women and open to all.
Open the resource hub →Wigs that match your hair. Communities that get it. People who understand what this season asks of you. The resource hub points you straight to them.
See what is there →During my own treatment for triple negative breast cancer, I was overwhelmed. There was no one who looked like me to walk me through the practical realities of hair loss, wigs, and holding on to my sense of self. I built Vérité Navigate to be what I could not find, so the next woman does not have to search alone.
Charmica Knight, Founder
Vérité Navigate connects women to a trusted network and fills the one gap none of these resources fully cover, which is personal, culturally specific appearance and identity navigation for Black women. If you work with oncology patients, fund health equity, or want to share this guide with the women you serve, we would love to talk.
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