Empowered Parents in Community

Empowered Parents in Community, EPIC, is a non-profit, 501c3, that aims to cultivate parent leadership and improve family engagement to better support their students’ educational needs. Our mission is to dismantle systemic racial inequities in education. We do this by intentionally engaging Black parents and empowering them through collective organization to advocate for accountability at all levels to close the educational opportunity gap. We came to life in one school and in one short year have grown to have parent leaders in 1/3 of Durham Public Schools.