Dr. Argrow “Kit” Evans-Ford is a spiritual director, social entrepreneur, and the founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope in Davenport, IA and Moline, IL. Argrow’s House is a safe space where free services are offered daily for women healing from violence in the Quad Cities Region. Argrow’s House is also a social enterprise where women healing from violence create beautiful bath products that provides a living wage for themselves in a safe space that celebrates who they are. In 2024, Argrow’s Cafe launched in Davenport, IA where 100% of the profit is used to support Argrow’s residential programming for women survivors.

Additionally, Dr. Kit is the founder of the Autistic & Loved Sensory Gym. The state of the art gym, chill spa, and green house provides sensory friendly programming and facilities for kids with special needs. Her goal is to provide a safe space for kids of all abilities to play and grow. A place where kids with special needs feel like superheroes. In addition to the gym, Dr. Kit created a line of chewable pendants. With a team of graphic illustrators and engineers she created food grade silicon pendants called chewelry for children with autism spectrum disorder and sensory processing disorder. Her pendants are the first invented that celebrate the beauty and diversity of autistic children. The line now includes a variety of pendants, oral motor and sensory resources, and vending machines!

Dr. Kit is the author of 101 Testimonies of Hope: Life Stories to Encourage Your Faith In God and A Children's Book on Bishop Richard Allen: A Nonviolence Journey. Her distinguished awards include a Champion of Love, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Public Service
Benefitting Local Communities and the Tom Locke Innovative Leader Award. Ford resides in Bettendorf, Iowa with her husband, Rev. Dr. Dwight L. Ford, and children; Imani and Justice Ford.