 While Dotson focuses on the epistemological dimensions of Collins’s exercises in “critical social theory” (Collins 1989, xiv), Belle focuses on its existential and phenomenological dimensions. She explains that Collins’s work “underscores the importance of safe spaces for Black women to speak freely as a necessary condition of resistance and empowerment” (Belle 2015, 2345). This orientation to agency, voice, and discursive community clearly informs Belle’s work as a scholar (Davidson, Gines, and Marcano 2010). But it also shapes her work as an institution-builder, most clearly as the driving force behind the Collegium for Black Women Philosophers, which since 2007 has aimed, as she puts it, “to create a safe space for Black women philosophers … to support, encourage and learn from one another” (Belle 2015, 2345).