The Brooklyn Roots Network is a collective of traditional artists, community cultural activists, and leaders in the folk arts field working as a multicultural collective to safeguard the expressive lives of Brooklyn's folk and traditional arts. The network was formed in 2020 to create a new model for folklife services whose fate is not in the hands of one particular non-profit. BRN is a non-hierarchical collective and is currently working to build its frameworks for governance and decision-making communication and its communications channels and tools.