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Voices From the Field

In partnership with over 150 grantee organizations, the Ms. Foundation for Women works to elevate the voices and solutions of women and youth across race and class. Hear directly from our grantees about their own perspectives on key issues and their experiences organizing for social change in communities across the U.S.
   

2010 Marie C. Wilson Young Woman's Leadership Awardee, Jasmin Woodbury, was the youngest youth organizer to ever join Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE). In her time at DARE Jasmin elevated the voices of youth, spearheading a campaign to make the local school board and the superintendent pay attention to the root causes of high drop-out rates in public schools. Learn more and view the video

   

2010 Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Awardee, Carol Burnett, is the founding executive director of the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative (MLICCI). Through her work at MLICCI Carol advocates for state policy reform and strengthens the capacity of child-care centers across Mississippi to deliver quality, affordable care. Learn more and view video

   

2010 Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Awardee, Silvia Henriquez, is the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Silvia envisions a world where "women and girls, Latinas, are able to make decisions about their health that are free from stigma, free from coercion, and that these decisions are respected and made with dignity.” Learn more and view video

   

In Ohio, the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland learned that abstinence-only education was hurting their ability to prevent teens from becoming infected with HIV and AIDS. They adopted a program of comprehensive sexuality education to fight the costs of ignorance. Learn more and view video

   

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Ai-Jen Poo was Lead Organizer and Founder of Domestic Workers United where she worked to build the power of the New York domestic workforce... Learn more and view video

   

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Ashley Nicole Tomlinson. After participating in Odyssey Youth Center's legislative lobby day trip on comprehensive sexuality education, Tomlinson became inspired to change her life and her community... Learn more and view video

   

StoryCorps -- the national storytelling organization -- joined the Atlanta 2010 Building Movements convening. Grantees shared stories of their work, lives and vision for a more just and safe world. Learn more and listen to the stories

   

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Brenda Dardar Robichaux is the Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the United Houma Nation Relief Fund. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated her tribe in Southeastern Louisiana, Robichaux mobilized to meet the immediate needs of the Houma Nation and established training in non-traditional jobs for women... Learn more and view video

   

CAAAV organizes across diverse, low-wage, and poor Asian communities in New York City, to expose and struggle against violence with the goal of building community capacity to exercise self-determination. Building coalitions enables CAAAV to contribute to a unified strategy for a broader, multi-racial and multi-issue movement for social change. Learn more and view video

   

In March 2010 the Ms. Foundation held a meeting of survivor activists from around the country in the area of childhood sexual abuse. The activists envisioned a new way to speak, think and mobilize around the prevention of childhood sexual abuse. Learn more and view video

   

Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. Learn more and view video

   

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Gina Womack, Director and Co-Founder of Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), is an impassioned community organizer dedicated to creating a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. Learn more and view video

   

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Kirbie Platero, a member and organizer at Young Women United, is a 19-year old activist, mother and artist working to secure reproductive justice for girls and women. She recently helped lead a successful campaign in New Mexico that brought young women of color to advocate before state officials for the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in public schools. Learn more and view video

   

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Lucy Félix is Lead Trainer & Community Organizer for Migrant Health Promotion's La Voz Latina Program. In South Texas, she promotes awareness about reproductive health and works with migrant women to advocate for the elimination of barriers to health care... Learn more and view video

   

Massachusetts Citizens for Children created the Enough Abuse Campaign to address child sexual abuse through a statewide education and training effort. Learn more and view video

   

Migrant Health Promotion works to make sure migrant farm workers throughout the US get access to health and health services, mobilizing migrant farm communities to fight for the services, resources, and rights they deserve. Learn more and view the slide show

   

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Naina Khanna, Director of Policy and Community Organizing at Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), supports, educates and mobilizes women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS encouraging them to advocate for policy change that meets their unique and, often, unmet needs. Learn more and view video

   

SMART (Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS Research and Treatment) University welcomes all women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS who are interested in getting control of their lives; willing to listen and be heard; and interested in learning how to better their health in order to live longer and healthier lives. Learn more and view video

   

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Vanessa Johnson is co-founder of the National Women and AIDS Collective (NWAC) a coalition of Ms. Foundation grantees representing groups run by and for HIV-positive women and aiming to change policy at the national level. Learn more and view video

   

Demetra Tennison is the peer advocacy coordinator for the Women Rising Project -- an organization devoted to addressing the needs of women and children affected by HIV and Aids. Hear about her rise to advocacy and her continued fight against stigma and fear. Learn more and view the slide show

 

   

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Yunuen Rodriguez is an advocate for media justice, violence prevention and culture change that respects women and girls. She successfully led negotiations with a Chicago radio station to drop a sexually exploitative ad campaign and testified before the Federal Communications Commission... Learn more and view video

   

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Gina Womack, Director and Co-Founder of Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), is an impassioned community organizer dedicated to creating a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. Learn more and view video

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