Issues
Your areas of interest will drive our exploration. I will bring my knowledge and networks to deepen the process. Below are some examples of the issue areas I know particularly well. As we identify areas you want to investigate, my experience with the leaders and organizations at work on these issues and others can help to enrich the planning process.
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Racial Justice
Advancing racial justice is embedded in each of the other issues here, but we could also design a portfolio specifically around advocacy on pressing racial justice issues including voting rights, safety from police violence and equitable economic opportunity, just to name a few.
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Reproductive Justice
Direct service and policy advocacy, particularly led by women of color, around all aspects of reproductive and maternal health and parenting. Includes comprehensive sex education; access to doulas and safe birth options; support for parenting; access to abortion, abortion funds, and training for primary care providers in the provision of abortion.
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Carceral Abolition
Policy reform around re-visioning community safety utilizing alternatives to policing and incarceration; direct service to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people; restorative justice approaches for survivors of violence; emergency responses to the incarceration crisis like bail funds.
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Climate Justice
Activism and policy advocacy to address the climate crisis particularly addressing the disproportionate impact on communities of color and indigenous people of pollution-creating industry, unhealthy air and water, and climate disasters.
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International Human Rights
Can be a broad-based approach, or a deep dive into specific regions or thematic areas of work; can include sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate justice, youth organizing, and the rights of indigenous people; emergency and humanitarian response utilizing a feminist and human rights lens toward developing community resilience, all with a focus on funding locally-led groups.
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Immigration
Advocacy and legal defense for undocumented people; supporting movements led by undocumented people themselves, and youth in particular, to encourage participation, changes in laws and access to services, education, justice and power.
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Education Equity
Promoting truth in history curricula and curricular representation of marginalized histories, voices and stories; addressing the school to prison pipeline through support of restorative justice approaches in schools; school safety and anti-bullying work.
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Feminist Movements
Again, gender equity is infused in all of these issue areas, but we can also do a deep dive on feminist issues like addressing gender-based violence, girls’ empowerment, access to healthcare and support for young women in particular to run for political office, for example.
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Disability Rights
Activism, advocacy and direct service around issues of disability and ableism; could include education equity for people with developmental or learning disabilities, as well as access to employment opportunities for disabled people.