| A former marketing consultant, GiGi Lucas found a home on the waves — and wants more Black women to join her. After a few years of surfing breaks from Costa Rica to New York City to Florida, Gwenna "GiGi" Lucas noticed a trend: She was one of just a few female surfers in the lineup — and usually the only woman of color. So she started doing her homework, and it led her back to Jim Crow. Segregation laws often prevented people of color from accessing public beaches, even with the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lucas, 40, drew a simple line from there to the fact that she could only find about six other female surfers of color on Instagram, even though the sport has been around for thousands of years. So in 2016, Lucas founded her nonprofit, SurfearNEGRA, to raise money to send the next generation of women of color to surf camp — and challenge cultural norms. | 