Monthly Archives: September 2022

Topic: Women’s Leadership

Ultraviolet Gives WDN a Founding Mother Award for 10 Years of Partnership

Karen Finney, UltraViolet Education Fund Board Chair, and Donna P. Hall, WDN President & CEO Emerita, during UltraViolet’s ten-year anniversary celebration. Congratulations to UltraViolet for ten years of breaking boundaries and winning change across politics, government, media, and pop culture. You are building a world that represents all women and we are deeply proud that you honored us as a Founding Mother.
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The Pandemic Isn’t Behind Black & Latinx Families: Equal Rights Advocates Uncovers Why

Photo: Equal Rights Advocates Many want to declare that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Yet COVID-19 and its tangential impacts continue to hold women and families of color back. This combines with systemic inequities, harmful policies sweeping the nation, persistent gun and police violence, and political inaction leave Black and Latinx women under pressure and struggling to survive, let alone thrive. 
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A WDN Member’s Look At Landback

Photo: NDN Collective By Cynthia Beard WDN member  Vice Chair, WDN Action Board WDN is proud to host Land and Legacy: Reclaiming Stolen Lands, a Landback learning series to highlight leaders working to rematriate stolen land. While the Landback movement has existed for generations, this movement has been elevated further in recent years through Indigenous-led direct action protests and social media campaigns.
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When Women Lead Financial Decision-Making

Women are often the most directly impacted by the world’s challenges including health care, unemployment, education, climate displacement, and violence, yet are excluded from financial leadership roles and capital allocation. Only 5% of chief executive officers, fund managers, or venture capital recipients are women (Shaber, Marime-Ball, 2022).
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Resource Guide: Reclaiming Stolen Lands

We live on Indigenous land, colonized five centuries ago. After generations of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism when we look at our country today, we see families that cannot access housing, food, or medical care, dry waterbeds, mass extinctions, a military complex that enforces a system of terror, and a government that protects and represents the needs of those in power.
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