Advancing Women of Color is the brainchild of a very ambitious and solution-oriented woman. Barbara Tyson found herself engaged in emotive conservation on the rising atrocities against people of color in the United States. Among the issues they identified were increased sex crimes, extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate incarceration, human trafficking, and police brutality, with most of them meted out against people of color. Although the cruelty cut across men and women, the latter suffered long-term consequences through disintegrated families caused by missing children, culminating in increased stress levels. As such, they thought of the most feasible method of empowering women by bringing them together and helping champion their interests in one powerful voice, giving birth to the idea of AWOC.