Urban Triage Founder and CEO Brandi Grayson has been invited to deliver the keynote address at Women's Day at S.S. Morris Community AME Church in Madison, Wisconsin.

This year's theme — Chosen, Called, and Courageous — drawn from Esther 4:14: "And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" — speaks directly to the heart of what it means to show up with courage in the face of systems that were never designed for us to win.

Brandi Grayson has spent over 15 years on the frontlines of social change in Madison and beyond — organizing communities, building institutions, advocating for Black lives, and refusing to stop even when the cost was high. What she brings to this pulpit is not just a speech. It is a testimony. A lived account of what it means to be chosen for something larger than yourself — and to keep showing up for it even when it breaks you open.

This is a morning for every woman who has ever wondered whether her calling was worth the cost. Whether her sacrifice meant something. Whether she was enough for the work she was called to do.

The answer is yes. And Brandi Grayson will tell you why.

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JOIN US

This Women's Day service is free and open to all. We invite every woman in the Madison community — and beyond — to come be in the room.

Come hear what courage actually looks like from the inside.

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Brandi Grayson is the Founder and CEO of Urban Triage — one of Wisconsin's most impactful community organizations, built from the ground up to center and serve Black communities in Madison. Over the course of 15 years Brandi has grown Urban Triage from a grassroots volunteer effort into a million dollar direct service provider — navigating hostile funding landscapes, building through movement moments, and leading with radical honesty when institutions demanded silence.

A systems analyst, thought leader, and now author, Brandi brings to every room she enters the rare combination of intellectual rigor and embodied truth. She does not speak about the systems that harm Black communities from a distance. She speaks from inside them — as a survivor, a builder, and a woman who has paid the full cost of showing up for a calling that was never going to be convenient or comfortable.

Brandi is currently writing her debut memoir Raised by Survival — a five part account of what it costs to build a life, a movement, and a family from the wound instead of the self. It is forthcoming in 2027.