About Our Founders
In late 2018, Nurse Practitioners and co-founders Nicole Brassington and Dr. Angelina Strickland created Bespoke Global Health Initiatives as a vehicle for their humanitarian ventures. In March 2019, the pair traveled to Sierra Leone in West Africa after being challenged to help by a Sierra Leonean nurse colleague. During that trip the pair hosted a Girls Empowerment and Health Education Seminar where they were inspired by the hopefulness of the young women who have survived a Civil War and an Ebola pandemic. From that trip, the women found their calling to partner with other women and organizations globally to “empower people of African descent around the world.”
Nicole Brassington, MSN, AG-ACNP-BC
Nicole Brassington is a social enterprise entrepreneur and healthcare provider who has dedicated her life to helping others and women’s empowerment as a nurse practitioner and businesswoman. Determined to positively impact the lives of women at home in Kentucky and around the world she started Bespoke Global Health Initiatives, Bespoke Ventures & Investments and NSPIRE Enterprises as vehicles to allow her to increase access to care for vulnerable populations and support businesses that inspire, invest, and leverage influence for good.
Nicole spent the first part of her career working as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Administrator in Heart and Lung Transplant in Kentucky and throughout the southeast region of the United States, this includes working on the front lines with COVID patients. Her career in healthcare gave her a keen awareness of health disparities that women face around the world. That awareness led her to co-found Bespoke Global Health Initiatives with Dr. Angelina Strickland as a way to change the world by empowering young women with health literacy, wellness, and self-confidence.
Nicole is a native of Lexington, Kentucky who lives in Louisville, Kentucky and is the mother of two boys. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, horses, sports but specifically rooting for the various Kentucky sports teams.
Dr. Angelina Strickland, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC
Dr. Angelina Strickland is a serial entrepreneur, holding a doctorate in advanced nursing practice and a bachelor’s in business management. She is dually certified as a Family and Psychiatric Mental Health nurse practitioner. She has been in the healthcare field for over 20 years, co-owning two private practices which provide primary and mental healthcare to the underserved and underprivileged in her community.
In addition to being a nurse practitioner, Dr. Strickland is the proud mother of 3 young men and the co-founder of 2 nonprofit organizations, The Black Nurse Practitioners of Louisville and Bespoke Global Health Initiatives. Through her nonprofits efforts she helps empower others locally and abroad through education, physical and mental healthcare, and entrepreneurship.
Her greatest passion is helping empower women to become who they want to be. She believes that together, we can make our dreams a reality!
Bespoke Global Health Initiatives Founders
