Yunuen Rodriguez, Women & Girls Collective Action Network
By: msfoundationforwomen
Posted: Jul 7 08
Witnessed: 429 times
United States
Sexual exploitation, Women's rights
discrimination, ethnic minorities, Youth
Winner of 2008 Marie C. Wilson Young Woman's Leadership Award, Yunuen Rodriguez is the first youth co-president of the board of Chicago-based Women & Girls CAN and a member of its youth-led initiative, Females United for Action. 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 exploitive ad campaign and testified before the Federal Communications Commission about how women of color are portrayed in the media.
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