B.Brave by SK WiLBUR
Venture Overview
B.Brave by SK WiLBUR creates and sells backpacks featuring original comic book-inspired artwork that engages families in inclusive stories of diverse American icons and historical “superheroes.” Founder Wilbur Pack, Jr., a seasoned fashion designer with 26 years of experience, was inspired by his early exposure to Black Studies to highlight overlooked changemakers like Bayard Rustin and Barbara Jordan. Through design and storytelling, B.Brave merges education, culture, and consumer products.
Website: www.bbravebackpacks.com
Venture Issue Area: Education & Talent
Venture Headquarters: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Venture Founder
Brooklyn-based and Halloween-born Wilbur Pack, Jr. is the designer and owner of B.Brave by SK WiLBUR, a stylish line of brightly colored backpacks featuring powerful images of original comic book-inspired artwork that provide families with practical and fun alternatives to other backpacks currently on the market. As a 17-year-old Baruch College freshman, he was excited to take his first Black Studies course, but as he learned about the important changemakers, writers, and activists, he wondered why he was learning about them for the first time. So, now he uses his 26 years of experience in the fashion industry and skills as a bag designer to create backpacks that tell the stories of historical superheroes like Bayard Rustin who was the architect of the 1963 March on Washington and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barbara Jordan, the first Black congresswoman from the Deep South and the first Black woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Each backpack comes with a QR code hangtag that, when scanned, takes the user to the company website for creatively entertaining video segments of kids like them who share information about “historical superheroes” who embody the spirit of the topic featured on their QR code hangtag using rap, dance, spoken word, step, etc. A portion of the sale of these backpacks supports crucial local education initiatives.
