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From Victims to Leaders: the Groundbreaking Work of Banteay Srei
By Ruwani Ekanayake, Research Intern, Women’s Foundation of California When you hear the phrase “sexually exploited minor” (SEM), what comes to your mind? International human trafficking? Helpless...
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Girls and Gangs Helps Girls Realize Potential for Greatness
Robyn Burleson, Intern, Women’s Foundation of California I recently spoke with Dawn Brown, Executive Director and CEO of Girls and Gangs, a Women’s Foundation of California’s grant partner. Girls and...
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It’s Time to Raise the Cost of Human Trafficking
By Daphne Phung, Executive Director & Founder of California Against Slavery This June, I went on a police undercover sting that targeted sex trafficking of girls in Oakland. What I saw was surreal....
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Take Action with MissRepresentation.org
The first event of the Amazing Women, Inspiring Stories speaking series left many people in the audience asking, “What’s next?” At the event, Dr. Kathy Magliato and Jennifer Siebel Newsom addressed how...
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New Podcast: In March we awarded $500,000 in grants!
In this interview, Grants Manager Mavis Gruver (shown left) describes some of our new grants and grant partners. Learn about and Sojourn to the Past, Maitri, and Girl Scouts of Northern California Got...
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Congratulations Monica Flores, Our Youngest WPI Fellow!
For the first time ever, our Women’s Policy Institute (WPI) had a teenage fellow. Don’t let her years fool you. Though she is only eighteen, Monica Flores is wise beyond belief. A mother of a...
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Policy Advocacy: A Tool for School Equity
By Rose Larsen, Intern Nina Alcaraz has worked with runaway pregnant teens in South Carolina, domestic violence survivors in China and rape victims in Monterey County. When asked how this diverse...
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Michelle Cale Educates a New Generation of Women Philanthropists
“People always think that only rich men like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are philanthropists. I believe that if you’re doing something for the common good, you’re acting in a philanthropic way and are...
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Growing New Leaders
The terror of the Cambodian Killing Fields lives on long past the end of the war. 40 years after they’ve left Cambodia, Khmer refugees still suffer the effects of the genocide. According to a 2005...
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Cruel and far too common: WPI fellows lobby to restrict the use of juvenile...
By AnnaJoy Gillis, Intern Imagine sitting in a cell the size of a parking space. You are all alone and will remain there for days on end, with no human contact or information about how long your...
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