Lucy Félix, Lead Trainer & Community Organizer for Migrant Health Promotion's La Voz Latina
By: msfoundationforwomen
Posted: Jul 7 08
Witnessed: 600 times
United States
Reproductive rights, Women's rights
Health, immigrants, migrants, texas
Winner of 2008 Woman of Vision Award: In migrant farmworking communities in South Texas, Félix promotes awareness about reproductive health and works with migrant women to advocate for the elimination of barriers to health care, some as basic as transportation.
Brenda Dardar Robichaux, the Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the United Houma Nation Relief Fund
Winner of 2008 Woman of Vision Award: After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated her tribe in Southeastern Louisiana, displacing more than 6,000 of their 17,000 members, Robichaux quickly mobilized ...
United States
Internally displaced persons, Poverty, Women's rights
Yunuen Rodriguez, Women & Girls Collective Action Network
Winner of 2008 Marie C....
United States
Sexual exploitation, Women's rights
Beyondmedia Video - Why They Gotta Do Me Like That: The Empowered Fe Fes Take On Bullying
A short version of the documentary in which young women with disabilities show us how we can work together to understand and stop school-based discrimination, particularly against people with disabili...
United States
Women's rights
Beyondmedia Video - Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories
This shortened version features The Empowered Fe Fes (slang for female), a group of young women with disabilities, hit the streets of Chicago on a quest to discover the difference between how they see...
United States
Women's rights
Perversion of Justice
What can be said of a justice system that sentences a young mother of three to life in prison for a first-time and non-violent drug-related offense?
United States
Drugs & human rights, Prisons, Women's rights
Ms. Foundation for Women
Founded in 1973, the Ms. Foundation for Women is the first and leading women’s fund and the foundation engaged across the United States to build women’s collective power to ignite change. The Ms....
United States
Minorities, Poverty, Women's rights
Liberty Coalition
The Liberty Coalition works to help organize, support, and coordinate transpartisan public policy activities related to civil liberties and basic rights....
United States
Women Make Movies
Established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization whic...
Global
Discrimination, Violence, Women's rights
Books Not Bars
Books Not Bars fights to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities....
United States
Juvenile justice
