Fwd: May 2015 updates & news from GGE

[ReKae Medina]

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From: Joanne Smith | GGENYC <me...@ggenyc.org>
Date: May 8, 2015 15:02:26 GMT+02:00
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Subject: May 2015 updates & news from GGE
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Sisters in Strength Graduation, Recap of #OurVoicesOurMovement Annual Youth Summit, and more!  View this email in your browser Facebook Twitter Instagram Website Donate IN THIS ISSUE Take Action!: Sisters in Strength Updates  Recap: #OurVoicesOurMovment Youth Summit 2015 Sisters in Strength Graduation! In June, our Sisters in Strength youth organizers graduate from the program. To celebrate these outstanding young women of color, we will host a Graduation. This event will celebrate their accomplishments, from completing the program to graduating from high school – and we need your support! With a gift or monetary donation, you can ensure that Sisters in Strength are  well prepared for their next steps as leaders!    Ways to Donate   All donations are tax deductible!   Purchase an item from our Wish List  This year, we have put together an Amazon wish list where supporters can purchase graduation gifts for Sisters in Strength. Items include bedding, desk lamps, weekly planners, and more. Our goal is to ensure participants have school the school supplies they need to continue their education.   Donate via Paypal Your monetary donation will underwrite 6 laptop computers for our graduating seniors. Simply add "SIS Graduation" in the Note to Seller field. Contributing via PayPal is fast, free, and secure! For questions, contact Jennifer Loubriel at outr...@ggenyc.com!  Apply to be a Sisters in Strength Youth Organizer 2015 - 2017 Cohort! Share this application with a young person today!  Programming is shaped both by the unique needs and interests of the SIS youth organizers, and by Girls for Gender Equity’s vision, mission, and goals. SIS organizes around gender-based violence and confronts the multiple layers of individual and institutional discrimination that threaten the safety of girls and women. Girls for Gender Equity celebrates all gender identities and expressions and encourages young trans women and gender non-conforming people of color to apply. SIS Application  SIS Recommendation Form   We are hosting a Question & Answer Session at our office (30 Third Avenue Suite 104, Brooklyn, NY 11217) on Friday, May 15th from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM. RSVP to Nathania Fields at sis...@ggenyc.org by May 11th! Dignity in Schools (DSC) Annual Membership Meeting   Sisters in Strength Youth Organizers Cheyenne Watts-Bey and Ednica Maxineau and Director of Organizing Kate McDonough joined over 90 other coalition partner organizations in Chicago! It was an opportunity to connect, share, and inform about campaign strategies. Cheyenne, Ednica and Kate reported on implicit bias and school push-out through the workshops and activities that they led.    All photos by Nancy Treviño Cheyenne speaking about implicit bias on the Opening Keynote panel. She also led a workshop with the NAACP on the African American Policy Forum's report "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected."  Ednica, Cheyenne, and Kate creating a timeline with Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM). Ednica also led a Vision and Values in Practice session, where DSC members discussed school push-out through an intersectional lens. Ednica led a piece on intergenerational coalition building. DSC coalition members in solidarity with all victims of state sanctioned violence. Shoshi Doza, the Coordinator for DSC-New York. American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference    Sisters in Strength Youth Organizers Charisma Barrington and Heleya Gray and Sisters in Strength alumni Margaret Gilliam presented SIS's Participatory Action Research on girls of color experiencing harsh discipline in schools.    They participated in the Education Research to Performance Youth Research Festival, with youth researchers from across the  globe. They were accompanied by our Executive Director Joanne Smith, Director of Organizing Kate McDonough, and Community Organizer Brittany Brathwaite.  Kate, Joanne, Heleya, Margaret, Charisma and Brittany with Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, our AERA team leader (2nd from the right).  Charisma, Margaret, and Heleya performing their Education Research to Performance skit on how harsh discipline affects girls of color.  Presenting reflection journals at the Sisters in Strength Research Gallery.   Brittany speaking on the panel "Overpoliced and Underserved: Voices of Girls of Color and LGBTQ Youth on Discipline and Punishment."   #OurVoicesOurMovment!   On April 8th, we hosted our 3rd Annual Youth Summit! It was a youth-led adult-supported collaboration with Sadie Nash Leadership Project, the Center for Anti-Violence Education, and the YA-YA Network. The day's events included workshops and activities that centered the experiences of cis and trans girls of color and gender non-conforming youth affected by state sanctioned violence.   Both our middle school program, Urban Leaders Academy, and Sisters in Strength facilitated workshops. ULA led a session on art as a form of social justice activism, where participants decorated masks to show problems and solutions for issues they saw in their communities. SIS led a session on gender justice and school push-out. Participants from the ULA workshop on art as a form of social justice activism. Here they are in the masks they created during the session. SIS alumni Nathania Fields and current SIS Cheyenne Nelson and Kaydene Small facilitating their gender justice and school push-out workshop.  View our video for more highlights from #OurVoicesOurMovment!  Please donate TODAY! Thank you for your support! DONATE TO GGE Copyright © 2015 Girls for Gender Equity, All rights reserved. GGENYC.ORG Girls for Gender Equity is committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women. Through education, organizing and physical fitness, Girls for Gender Equity encourages communities to remove barriers and create opportunities for girls and women to live self-determined lives. Our mailing address is: 30 3rd Ave, Ste 104 Brooklyn, NY 11217  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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