Mia Jose

One of the greatest privileges of building For Her, By Us has been sitting down with single mothers and the organizations supporting them. Every woman has a different story - widowhood, divorce, choice, circumstances never chosen. But through all my interviews, I keep hearing the same answer to one question: "Where do you wish you had more support?" Almost always, it comes back to affordable childcare and workplaces that accommodate family life. That answer stayed with me, because it's my...

We love to call single mothers resilient. They're the ones who somehow show up to work after a night spent pacing the floor with a sick kid. They stretch a paycheck four ways, sit through school meetings alone, comfort a grieving child while grieving something themselves, and just keep going. Somewhere along the way, "resilient" stopped being a compliment and started being an expectation - like they've earned the label, but there's no room left to admit they're struggling. That's the line I...

Setting Your Child Up to Succeed You know the feeling: it's 7:40 am, someone can't find a shoe or their bag, and you have to be at work by 8:30 am. It's easy to feel like "just get through the school year" is the whole strategy. Every August, millions of families prepare for a new school year. For single mothers, this season often means a juggling act: supply shopping, changing work schedules, transportation, childcare, extracurricular activities, and homework - all while continuing to manage...