About Me

PEACE!!!

My name is Gracie Berry, founder of GirlrillaVintage.

I’ve spent the last 25 years applying the knowledge I’ve learned as a self taught multidimensional creative through a variety of media. My community celebrates me for creating safe, impactful, uplifting experiences that span generations and bring diverse groups of people together. Showcasing my art, activism, autochthonous lineage, storytelling, vintage, words. A spiritual Roothealer. Here to love and liberate the people.

As a proud matrilineal descendant of the Mende people in Sierra Leone West Afrika & black Choctaw Native American Indians of South Carolina, the relationship I maintain with my ancestors is pivotal to everything I touch in this life. The “Maafa ” or African Holocaust took my mothers family from West Afrika to the antebellum south. I did a genealogy test through Africanancestry.com that traced our haplo group to Ghana then to Sierra Leone. I’m a first generation undergraduate from Lincoln University Pennsylvania, the nations first degree granting HBCU. A story all too familiar for Black communities around the globe. Til’ my last breath I will work tirelessly to break generational traumas in my families lineage and around my community through my art and advocacy.

I founded GirlrillaVintage in 2010, an Afrikan Roots and Empowerment Organization, sharing Afrikan cultural diaspora content, events, and perspectives through the offerings of education, expressive arts, spirituality, vintage aesthetic, workshops, and events that serve as tools to engage people of Afrikan descent to become more aware of their inherent birth right to the culture, no matter how they were born into it. A creative platform that celebrates Black and Brown communities, narratives, stories and lineages.

Thank you for sharing space and time. Ase’O!