Rosalind Brooks is a Health and Wellness Coach, Community Garden Founder and Creator of Well Women of Color, a transformative movement that empowers women to holistically heal their bodies from the inside out.
Within her online community, Rosalind invites women into a simple and supportive journey to reclaim their health from excess weight, disease and stress. An instructor in every sense of the word, Rosalind teaches women how to think, eat and move healthier, so they can be their own best doctors, and, more importantly create the spiritual, physical and mental energy to go after their God-given purpose.
From a little girl’s dream of becoming a dietician to a grown woman’s vision to be the compass for black women along their restorative health journeys, Rosalind is clearly called to do this work. After simultaneously juggling a career as an elementary school teacher and running a nutrition and wellness ministry through her church for almost a decade, she felt a pull on her spirit to pursue a dream of building a homeless shelter. So, in 2010, she set out with a donated piece of land and her plan. But God had a different one. As doors closed at every turn, Rosalind found herself farther from building a shelter, but closer to planting the roots of her destiny. While she waited for God to guide her, she decided to put the land to good use and begin to work the earth. And while she’d never planted anything in her life, somehow, she was exactly where she was supposed to be. Today, Vegas Roots, the first urban community garden along with the first mobile farmer’s market in the city of Las Vegas, serves two thousand people per year from its soil. Stepping back onto familiar ground as a guide, Rosalind began connecting with women who were battling weight gain and other health crisis. As word spread, hundreds of women flocked to the garden for vegan cooking demos, guided grocery shopping and Roz’s infamous daily health hacks.
