Equity

We would tell stories about our origins, and what we have endured, on our own terms, without whiteness determining how we should tell those stories.

Cassi Johnson & Sharon Kennedy Vickers

Patricia Torres Ray & Joan Blakey

When the 2023 legislative session opened January 3, there were fresh voices in both the House and the Senate, thanks largely to urban voters. Here are some of them, who we talked to last fall during their campaigns.

“The United States has come a long way from the past. This … has compelled generation after generation to overlook the present.” — from an essay in “The 1619 Project”

“We have never been represented by somebody like me, with this voice, with the communities that I am bringing in.”

She witnessed the power of standing up, facing fear, and finding one’s agency — a power she has guided other women to unearth within themselves over the past 25 years.

Seraphia Gravelle (Aguallo) was 17 years old when she moved to Minnesota’s Iron Range from Texas to be close to

The events of 2020, from the outbreak of the pandemic to the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, sparked

The hardest part of the work Women’s Foundation is doing, Perez adds, is “changing the hearts and minds of people who do not see the barriers up close. Unless we change hearts and minds, actions won’t follow.”

Supporters of women of color and LGBTQ+ legislative candidates came out to celebrate the intersectional movement

Local advocate Judy Moe, Director of the Richfield Disability Advocacy Project (R-DAP), is focused on mobilizing the disability community’s vote.