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This week, we're joined by Yamani Hernandez, the chief executive officer of the Groundswell Fund, to discuss the importance of grassroots organizing and reproductive justice in this moment. Ms. has joined forces with Groundswell Fund and Groundswell Action Fund to create a special Gender & Democracy site dedicated to the work of Groundswell partners to highlight their efforts to champion inclusive democracy. You'll hear their reflections and learn about the accomplishments of grassroots and local leaders, women of color, Indigenous women, and trans and gender-expansive people whose organizing and work is supported by Groundswell.Joining us to discuss these issues is our very special guest: Yamani Hernandez is the chief executive officer of the Groundswell Fund. She has been working in the nonprofit space since she was 16 years old and doing that at the neighborhood level, city level, national and international levels. This has led her to the Groundwell Fund, which has funded nearly 200 million dollars for grassroots, organizing for reproductive and gender justice led by women and gender expansive people of color.Check out this episode's landing page at MsMagazine.com for a full transcript, links to articles referenced in this episode, further reading and ways to take action.Support the show

On episode 234, we welcome Vanessa Daniel to discuss the personal and professional challenges women of color face, how trauma influenced Vanessa's understanding of the world, how to understand intersectionality, what it means to leave no marginalized groups behind as democrats fight for power, the importance of solidarity in addressing individual trauma, 360 degree vision, the lack of courage among democratic leaders, appealing to voters, why the left isn't immune from criticism, and what cancel culture gets wrong. Vanessa Priya Daniel has worked in social justice movements for twenty-five years as a labor and community organizer and funder. She founded and served for seventeen years as executive director of Groundswell Fund, a leading funder of women of color-led grassroots and electoral organizing. She is a recipient of the Smith College Medal, was featured by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as one of fifteen “Influencers” who are changing the non-profit world, and by Inside Philanthropy as one of the “Top 100 Most Powerful Players in Philanthropy.” Vanessa has written for The New York Times and other publications. Her new book, available now, is called Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning.  | Vanessa Daniel | ► Website | https://www.vanessapriyadaniel.com ► Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vanessapriyadaniel ► Twitter | https://x.com/vanessapdaniel ► Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564853652820 ► Unrig the Game Book | https://www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/books Where you can find us: | Seize The Moment Podcast | ► Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/SeizeTheMoment ► Twitter | https://twitter.com/seize_podcast  ► Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/seizethemoment  

Yamani Yansá Hernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to her role at Groundswell Fund, which works to strengthen movements for reproductive and social justice.

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During 2023, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause continued to bushwack a maroon path for those menopause stories left at the margins by launching a diasporic tour that took our team to the UK, Harlem, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. Our intergenerational team has learned to hold the “both/and” dynamic tension of curating storytelling spaces more deeply. We are infinitely grateful for the lessons we have learned from our travels together, community conversations, and partnerships that include: What it means to make offerings in communities where we do not reside What it means to partner with people who have different definitions and understandings of community, culture, justice, gender, healing, and liberation What it means to collaborate with BIPOC and queer creatives and artists who are infinitely talented and habitually underresourced What it means to hold intergenerational space in ways that don't reinforce ageist tropes about who can offer wisdom, respect, power, and perspective What it means to create, in real-time, a culture of belonging and care for and with your team What it means to travel internationally as a team in ways that keep us safe from harm What it means to be patient, humble, and accountable What it means to try and fail What it means to try and soar In this last episode of this very special season of the podcast, you will hear stories from our time in Toronto and team reflections from Puerto Rico. As you soak up this offering, we will leave you with these questions as 2023 comes to a close: What is the important liberatory work you want to do for your community and the spaces you occupy? What stories live inside you that are ready to be shared? See you in 2024! Episode Notes Voices heard in this episode: Alexandra Jane, BGG2SM Social Media Manager Farhath Siddiqui, BGG2SM Hits the Road Videographer, Siddiqui Media Assata Goff, BGG2SM in-house artist Omisade Burney-Scott, Creator & CCO at the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause Feature Orisii interviewees: Amma Gyamfowa, Founder of Womanist Healing Georgina G., mother of Amma Season 5 Host and Producer: Mariah M., Creative Director at the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause Score credits (all music free to use under Creative Commons Licensing): Moving Fast by Holden Excess Beauty all Around Us by Steven Beddall (AudioLibrary) AfroLove by The LadyProducer (AudioLibrary) BGG Season 4/5 Theme - Taj Scott This season and the diasporic tour were made possible by our partners and sponsors at The Honey Pot Company, Kindra, Elektra Health and the Groundswell Fund. For the past four years, the Black Girls' Guide to Surviving Menopause has been a multi-media platform with Reproductive Justice, Black Feminism, and Healing Justice as our north star. At its core, this means we fundamentally believe that none of us are free until all of us are free, and when the most vulnerable of us are taken care of, all of society stands to benefit. BGG2SM unapologetically stands in solidarity with all marginalized people and their struggle for freedom, and their demand of their innate human rights.

This week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Kerrie Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Together they discuss the nation's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and its impact on the LGBTQ community and the importance of including the LGBTQ community's perspective and existing within different intersections as well updates on Brittney Griner's case. Discussed in this episode: LGBTQIA+, LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, bisexual,  trans, transgender, queer, civil rights, justice, Brittney Griner, Russia, WNBA, safe space, safety, health, Black community, Black men, Black America, African Americans, Race, Black Women, Black Families, State of Black America, For the Movement, National Urban League, Urban League Movement, Young Professionals  Contact and Follow our Guest(s) on Twitter @TaskForceAF. Visit: https://www.thetaskforceactionfund.org. Contact and Follow the National Urban League at: Web: www.nul.org Email: podcast@nul.org  Twitter and Instagram: @NULpolicy | @NatUrbanLeague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy  Kierra's Bio: Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, joined the National LGBTQ Task Force in 2018 as Deputy Executive Director but was already engaged with the organization, previously serving on the National LGBTQ Task Force's board of directors and its National Action Council. Johnson came to the Task Force after serving as (Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity) URGE's Executive Director with a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and management, program development, youth leadership and reproductive justice. As a bisexual Black woman, Johnson is one of few out queer-identified women of color at the helm of a national LGBTQ organization. She is recognized as a national expert on queer and reproductive rights issues and has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News, Feministing.com and National Public Radio. Johnson also serves on the boards of directors of the General Service Foundation, Groundswell Fund, and Guttmacher Institute. Here are opinion pieces written by Kierra Johnson that were mentioned in this episode: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/transgender-people-get-pregnant-sometimes-trans-people-need-abortions/   https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/6/29/how-scotuss-roe-decision-fails-todays-america

This week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Kerrie Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Together they discuss the nation's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and its impact on the LGBTQ community and the importance of including the LGBTQ community's perspective and existing within different intersections as well updates on Brittney Griner's case. Discussed in this episode: LGBTQIA+, LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, bisexual,  trans, transgender, queer, civil rights, justice, Brittney Griner, Russia, WNBA, safe space, safety, health, Black community, Black men, Black America, African Americans, Race, Black Women, Black Families, State of Black America, For the Movement, National Urban League, Urban League Movement, Young Professionals  Contact and Follow our Guest(s) on Twitter @TaskForceAF. Visit: https://www.thetaskforceactionfund.org. Contact and Follow the National Urban League at: Web: www.nul.org Email: podcast@nul.org  Twitter and Instagram: @NULpolicy | @NatUrbanLeague Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy  Kierra's Bio: Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, joined the National LGBTQ Task Force in 2018 as Deputy Executive Director but was already engaged with the organization, previously serving on the National LGBTQ Task Force's board of directors and its National Action Council. Johnson came to the Task Force after serving as (Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity) URGE's Executive Director with a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and management, program development, youth leadership and reproductive justice. As a bisexual Black woman, Johnson is one of few out queer-identified women of color at the helm of a national LGBTQ organization. She is recognized as a national expert on queer and reproductive rights issues and has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News, Feministing.com and National Public Radio. Johnson also serves on the boards of directors of the General Service Foundation, Groundswell Fund, and Guttmacher Institute. Here are opinion pieces written by Kierra Johnson that were mentioned in this episode: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/transgender-people-get-pregnant-sometimes-trans-people-need-abortions/   https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/6/29/how-scotuss-roe-decision-fails-todays-america

"Transformation doesn't happen in a linear way, at least not one we can always track. It happens in cycles, convergences, explosions. If we release the framyework of failure, we can realize that we are in iterative cycles, and we can keep asking ourselves----- how do I learn from this? Emotional growth is nonlinerar." adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds To normalize menopause means to operate with a deep understanding of the complex diversity of experiences people have on their journeys and creating safe spaces to talk about that. It also requires a suspension assumptions around "who" is experiencing it, "how" they are experiencing it and even "when" all of this might begin (or end). The "when" part is particularly tricky when you are a young person in your 20s or 30s and begin to experience something that you anticipated wouldn't happen until you were in your 40s, 50s or even 60s. In this episode, we are graced with the stories of two people who experienced menopause in their 20s and 30s. Paris Hatcher is a Black, queer visionary feminist who has has been organizing individuals and organizations toward liberation at the local, national, and international level for twenty years.. In 2014, Paris founded Black Feminist Future as a movement incubator to support the leadership of Black feminist leaders, organizations and movements. At BFF, she serves as the Director and Chief Rabble Rouser. Paris also worked as Principal at Rhombus Consulting, Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, and was the co-founder and the Executive Director at SPARK: Reproductive Justice NOW. She served as board member of Southerners on New Ground for five years and she was a founding board member of the Groundswell Fund the largest reproductive justice foundation in the United States. Follow Paris on IG at @harrietsrevenge Learn more about Paris and Black Feminist Futures: https://www.blackfeministfuture.org/ Chass Grissom is a Louisiana native and liquid alchemist, recently turned coffee cart owner! I was diagnosed with 3b late stage stage cervical cancer. Received chemo, radiation and has not had a cycle in 3 years. Now currently living a holistic lifestyle to continue to manage their health but also to manage premenopausal symptoms since going through treatment. Follow Chass on IG at @Parlecoffeeco ************ To learn more about the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause, check us out at www.blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause.com To make a one time love offering: Cashapp: $Omitutu Venmo: @Omisade5 To become a patron, check out our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopause

Continuum's Jillian Foster speaks with Meenakshi Menon, Chief Development Officer at Groundswell Fund, about her passion for philanthropy that unlocks resources for grassroots movements. After a career in global health, Meenakshi found her way to leading development for some of the most important and visionary foundations strengthening human rights at local levels. Living and working across many different communities has informed her work at the intersections of race, gender, and social change.Resources:Groundswell FundFollow Meenakshi Menon on Twitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meenakshi Menon is Groundswell Fund’s Chief Development Officer. The daughter of immigrants from India and Malaysia, over the last 14 years, she has worked in 30 countries across 5 continents, advancing sexual health and reproductive rights, peace and security, and racial justice.Meenakshi began her career as a community organizer and health and human rights field researcher, working with diverse organizations and stakeholders in the US and abroad, including MassPIRG, Physicians for Human Rights, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, and the Center for Khmer Studies. In 2011, she was appointed the Executive Director of GHETS, a US-based NGO that works to improve global health systems through grantmaking, technical support, and advocacy. Her work with GHETS involved directing the grantmaking, capacity building, and fundraising programs, as well as leading programmatic initiatives in East and Southern Africa and South and Southeast Asia in community health, sexual health and reproductive rights, food security, and water and sanitation.As a fundraising and philanthropy professional, Meenakshi is passionate about strengthening the capacity of mission-driven organizations, and creating greater equity in philanthropy, particularly for womxn, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As the Coalition for the International Criminal Court's Director of Development, from 2015-2016 she worked with staff around the world, as well as local, national, and regional Coalition affiliates on institutional advancement initiatives, including mobilizing resources from European Governments, International Development Agencies, Foundations, and high-net worth Individuals on behalf of international justice. Most recently, Meenakshi served as the Head of Government & Foundation Relations for North America at International Crisis Group, where she managed the organization's relationships with high-level institutional donors, as well as developed, executed, and expanded the organization’s U.S. institutional giving strategy.Meenakshi holds a BA in Anthropology from Smith College, and serves on the Leadership Council of Powerbitches. She lives in Brooklyn, and in addition to her native Malayalam, speaks English, Hindi, Khmer, and Spanish.In this episode Meenakshi tells us her story of "someone who is pretty ordinary with the chance to do extraordinary things". With roots in India and Malaysia, Meenakshi reflects and pays homage to her familial roots, including her father's arrival to the US 50 years ago. We learn about the impact grassroots organizing had on her approach to development and philanthropy; more specifically progressive philanthropy. Meenakshi also reflects on the time she assumed the role as Executive Director early on in her career. We hear of the sacrifices she made at the helm of leadership and what she offers up for emerging leaders in the work. "A Brown woman with a Western education", Meenakshi also shares the parallels she sees between the movements for peace in India and racial justice. Pull up a chair and take in this beautifully woven cross-cultural narrative. Meenakshi's vast international work, ever-evolving reflection and activation of the personal and the political is very much affirming for our present and future.We reflect on the blueprint of our journeys and amplify the value we bring to the sector as we share Forward 4O’s platform with this phenomenal WOC in the nonprofit and social enterprise sector.Stay connected with Meenakshi on LinkedIn, and Twitter . Check out Groundswell Fund's latest Blueprint here. Follow the work of Groundswell Fund on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Forward 40(4tea) on IG and Twitter @forward4tea. Continue to support and nominate a guest to be on the show. You can also learn more about the host Coach Faith here.  

This week, Tim and Greg speak with playwright, actor and activist Roger Q Mason. Mason talks about their identity as a Black, Filipinx gender non-conforming queer artist of color, their extensive education both in and out of the classroom, and how their play Lavender Men hopes to reimagine Abraham Lincoln as a queer icon. This week, please join Tim and Greg in giving to Groundswell Fund. You can also support us at patreon.com/moronthatlater You can find more about Roger's work at www.rogerqmason.com

We had the opportunity to connect with Kiyomi Fujikawa in Winter 2019 and it was such a treat. Check out this conversation with Caitlin Breedlove. Kiyomi Fujikawa is a Seattle-based, mixed-race queer trans femme who has been involved with movements to end gender- and state-based violence since 2001. Her political home is with queer and trans communities of color and organizing to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence. Kiyomi is currently on the board of Groundswell Fund and is a Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) Leadership Development Fellow. She was most recently a Senior Program Associate at the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and the Queer Network Program Coordinator at API Chaya. She is also an avid lover of speculative fiction, noodles, astrology (Saj Sun, Cancer-rising, Libra Moon), feelings, and do-it-yourself scavenger hunts. referenced in this episode: Third Wave Fund Wild Seed by Octavia Butler Kiyomi's book recommendations: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin (5th Season, Obelisk Gate, Stone Sky) Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor intro music by Abhimanyu Janamanchi. production by Nora Rasman.

Jamia A. Wilson M.A. '09 GSAS served as the ACDE (Asst Community Development Educator) at University Hall while attending the graduate program at GSAS. She currently serves as the Executive Director and Publisher of the Feminist Press at City University of New York. Having formerly served as Executive Director of Women, Action, and the Media, as a TED Prize Storyteller, and as Vice President of Programs at The Women’s Media Center, Wilson has been a powerful force at the intersection of social justice movements and media for nearly a decade. As a leading voice on feminist and women’s rights issues, Wilson has had her work featured in such outlets as The New York Times, New York magazine, The Today Show, and The Washington Post. She is also a staff writer for Rookie and has contributed to several books, including Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop (2012) and I Still Believe Anita Hill (2013). Wilson is the author of the children’s book Young, Gifted, and Black (2018), and she wrote the oral history in Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World (2018). She co-authored Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Advocacy, and Activism for All (2018). Her next children’s title, Step into Your Power, will be released in spring 2019. Wilson has spoken alongside prominent feminist figures such as Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda. She has traveled globally to speak on race, feminism, and leadership, from the stages of TED Women and Netroots Nation to the Facing Race conference and numerous college campuses. Wilson serves as a board member for Hollaback!, Groundswell Fund, Omega Institute, and Feminist.com, and she is also affiliated with #FemFuture, SPARK Movement, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Jamia is an NYU ‘legacy’ as her grandfather graduated from NYU as well. And she is most proud of her recent selection as the recipient of the 2018 NYU GSAS Alumni Achievement Award Recipient.

Groundswell Fund’s Naa Hammond explains why reproductive justice is about more than just reproductive rights—it also means addressing race, class, sexuality, and identity. (Published: July 7, 2017)