The AIP BIPOC Network

Reclaiming Wellness. Reshaping Systems. Rooted in Community.

The AIP BIPOC Network (ABN) is a national nonprofit improving the quality of life for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color navigating autoimmune disease and chronic illness. We serve individuals across the spectrum of diagnosis, suspicion, and symptoms, with a focus on under resourced and historically excluded communities.

Our work is guided by a dual AIP framework:

🟡 Autoimmune Protocol: a lifestyle based approach to managing chronic illness.
🟡 Access, Inclusion, and Prevention: a structural equity model to address and dismantle systemic barriers.

Too often, BIPOC individuals are misdiagnosed, dismissed, or overlooked. At ABN, we do not just fill in the gaps, we name why those gaps exist and build community rooted tools to eliminate them. We lead from lived experience, not theory.

Our Mission

Our mission is to improve the quality of life of the BIPOC autoimmune community through five pillars:

Awareness: Equity centered health education that reflects our communities.
Advocacy: Shifting policy, power, and practice toward health justice.
Action: Mobilizing BIPOC voices to transform systems and culture.
Assessment: Using data and community insight to drive decisions and accountability.
Alignment: Building partnerships and pathways that connect people, programs, and systems for greater impact.

We Build at the Intersection of Chronic Illness and Systemic Inequity

BIPOC communities face higher rates of autoimmune disease, yet are routinely left out of clinical trials, policy decisions, and research funding. The disparities we confront are not only clinical, they are structural.

Our work centers the Social Determinants of Health, including:

1. Food apartheid and environmental toxins
2. Lack of culturally competent and culturally grounded care
3. Medical racism and systemic bias
4. Economic instability and underinsurance
5. Lack of representation in research, leadership, and language

Healing is not just about protocols, it is about place, power, and people.

How We Show Up

🟡 ROCK the Block (Reaching Our Communities and Kids) - Our signature health and resource expo brings autoimmune education, screenings, fitness, and wraparound support directly into underserved neighborhoods. It’s not just an event—it’s a movement for health equity on the ground.

🟡 AIP BIPOC Roundtables – Monthly community-led conversations that validate lived experience and equip participants with culturally grounded tools for healing

🟡 Community Health Outreach – In-person events bringing education, screenings, and resources directly into overlooked neighborhoods

🟡 Private Support Spaces – A safe digital community for peer support, mentorship, and connection, especially for those newly diagnosed or still seeking answers

🟡 Policy & Research Advocacy – Bringing BIPOC autoimmune voices into spaces where care is shaped, clinical trials, health policy, and national strategy

🟡 Holistic Education – Accessible workshops, blogs, and toolkits that adapt Autoimmune Protocol principles to our cultural and economic realities

Your support helps us:

✔️ Expand outreach into overlooked communities
✔️ Create space for BIPOC-led healing and education
✔️ Advocate for long-term, systemic solutions rooted in justice

We’re not just a nonprofit, we’re a movement.

Support chronic illness equity.
Support culturally grounded care.
Support The AIP BIPOC Network.