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An Expert Weighs in on a Parent’s Role in Raising Anti-Racist Humans

In light of 2021’s Black History Month theme, Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity, we interviewed Dr. Vanessa Santiago Schwarz—teacher, parent educator, and mother of two young children on her approach to anti-racist parenting. 

Working With Children's Hospital to Make Life Better

If you've ever scanned the Good Buy Gear website for second-hand kid gear you may have noticed some items have...

Get To Know GBG: Head Wingmom Amanda Brown

Seven years of leading her daughter's Girl Scout Troop certainly helped prepare Amanda Brown for the roll of Lead Wingmom, a job involving organizing and training parents to handle kid gear. 


Before Brown became the Lead Wingmom she worked for Arapahoe County assisting individuals in need with public assistance. That all changed right before her son Logan, now 8, was born. After a hard pregnancy and some health issues with her baby, Brown decided the best thing for her family was to take on the role of a stay-at-home mom, which she did until he was 7-years-old.

Get To Know GBG: Kihra Hekkers, Good Buy Gear's First Wingmom

When you sign on to goodbuygear.com you may have a window pop up with the picture of a woman sporting ear-length blond hair. That helpful lady is Kihra Hekkers, who has been with the company just about from the beginning. 

 "I had been a stay-at-home mom for about six years and had been looking for a job that I could do from home or on my own schedule, preferably with a toddler in tow, and I had started to think that job didn’t actually exist."

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