The Bella Bulletin: March 2019 Edition

The Bella Bulletin MARCH 2019

Happy birthday to…

Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Op-Ed on, “Barbara Kruger”

Creator,picks Sofia discusses Happy Women’s Month! EnjoyContent this month’s of Baluyut inspirational how artist, Barbara Kruger used her work women to honor and cherishtoduring Women’s Month. Thisofmonth express the importance gender we’ve got short stories! equality.

-​Mayannah Beauvoir, Content creator for the Bella Bulletin

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Table of Contents

This Month in Women’s History ……....……….3 ACTIVISM THROUGH ART………………….…….……4 Featured Headlines of the Month …….....….….6 FEMINIST FIVE………………………………..…..……8 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO..……………………….…...…...10 Summer Interns Needed…………..……...….......11 Looking for Enrichment Opportunities...…..12 The Bella Bulletin Staff…..…………..…..….......14 BALI STAFF & Board of Directors……….……....15

Women’s History of the month:

March

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Activism Through Art The Supreme logo, with its blocky white Lately, Frida Kahlo’s iconic visage seems to be text over a bright red background, has everywhere! You can see images of her face become people of younger popping well-known up on tote tobags on the subway, generations.

TheStrand, company itself has buttons from the countless Instagram posts, andsomewhat even NYC street art. But to with truly become synonymous honor this artist who centered womanhood, consumerism. But though the company has radical politics, and her personal struggles in her reached widespread fame, we may not work, we should learn more about her history know the 74-year-old feminist and and her art. anti-capitalist artist whose work inspired the design.

Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, and eventually went to school at Syracuse University and Parsons Frida was born in 1907 in ​Coyoacán, Mexico. At School hired and by 18, she of wasDesign seriouslybefore hurt a being bus accident, would continue to be affected by those injuries Conde Nast. Within these institutions and for the rest of her life.

Her recovery, however, her eventual establishment in the art world,is what led her to painting. Later, at 22, she began Kruger says that her childhood experiences her relationship with Diego Rivera and traveled and familyhis circumstance continued to to support artistic career. Their relationship influence her perspective. growing up was fraught, including a Not yearlong divorce followed by ​she theirsays​ remarriage, and she many upper class, , means that is extramarital affairs for both (Frida engaged “from a different class than most of myin affairs with both men and women). colleagues [....] I'm sensitized to issues of race andoften difference.”

Her art reflected the painful relationships she had with her own body and with Diego. In her painting ​The Broken Column​, she depicts physical pain; in ​Henry Ford Hospital​, she paints about her experience of miscarriage. Following her divorce with Diego, she painted ​Self Portrait with Cropped Hair​, where she represents an androgynous version of herself in reaction to her difficult relationship.

Perhaps most importantly, however, her work was also Kruger deeply political.

Frida herself was mixed-race, Though supported as an and made sure to particularly represent artist and educator for some time after her indigenous culture in her art. This interest in job at Conde Nast, her art really took off and centering of indigenous culture made her a part of the Mexicanidad movement. She often

after around 1980. She began collecting painted herself wearing Tehuana traditional found black-and-white imagery, and printed dress, which calls to an indigenous Zapotec social them key in blocky culturecommentary where womenatop are given societal lettering.

Her background as Fridas a graphic roles. Her iconic painting ​The Two can be interpreted, as a discussion of herher mixed designer forina part, magazine helped lead to heritage; she is shown holding hands with this attention-grabbing, pithy style; the herself, where one version of herself is in black, white, and red colors appear stark European dress, and the other in traditional and clear,wear. while pronoun Tehuana Sheher also ​a​hmbiguous onored a connection use engagespaintings the reader.

(Where with directly nature through like ​Roots and Self Portrait with Monkey ​ .

Frida also held might ​you stand, for instance, in the Communist beliefs her lifetime, phrasing “your gazethroughout hits the side of my attending protests, supporting workers, and face?”)

Kruger also strove to make her art critiquing the capitalistic U.S. ​Self-portrait on accessible

by Between literally Mexico placingand it in the Borderline the public United spaces: haspainting been on ​buses​ , the States isher oneart such where her love​sides of an independent, pre-colonial Mexico is clearly of buildings​, ​skate parks​, and more. contrasted with her negative experiences of the United States.

One of her most famous pieces was an image of a white woman split in half, one half where the colors are inverted, with the words ​“your body is a battleground.” This was Kruger’s art piece for the 1989 Women’s March on Washington, and it reflects her pro-choice sentiments while calling cis women to action over their reproductive rights.

Of course, there is so much more to learn and honor about Frida Kahlo. It is important that she is not whitewashed and that the legacy of her beliefs live on just as much as her image.

Though she would later be claimed as a figurehead for different feminist movements, there was more to her work and her life than can be revealed in these one-dimensional understandings of her. To continue thinking about Frida and her legacy, there is an exhibition of her artwork ​at the Brooklyn Museum running from February 8–May 12, 2019, and ​Teen Vogue and ​The Independent offer articles that can serve as starting points to discuss the contrast between Frida’s image being commodified and the actual politics she stood for.

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And it’s Hair wrong to trivialize any one an of with Cropped ​, where she represents those things at the price of the in other.” androgynous version of herself reaction to her difficult relationship.

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This interest in job at Conde Nast, her art really took off therefore I am,” and servesculture as a criticism and centering of indigenous made herofa part of the Mexicanidad movement. She often

after around 1980. She began collecting painted herself Tehuana traditional a capitalist andwearing consumerist that found black-and-white imagery, society and printed dress, which calls to an indigenous Zapotec conflates identity with material social thempossessions. in blocky culturecommentary where womenatop are given key societal lettering.

Her background as Fridas a graphic roles. Her iconic painting ​The Two can be interpreted, as a discussion of herher mixed designer forina part, magazine helped lead to heritage; she is shown holding hands with this attention-grabbing, pithy style; the herself, where one version of herself is in black, white, and red colors appear stark European dress, and the other in traditional and clear,wear. while pronoun Tehuana Sheher also ​a​hmbiguous onored a connection use engagespaintings the reader.

(Where with directly nature through like ​Roots and Self Portrait with Monkey ​ .

Frida also held might ​you stand, for instance, in the Communist beliefs her lifetime, phrasing “your gazethroughout hits the side of my attending protests, supporting workers, and face?”)

Kruger also strove to make her art critiquing the capitalistic U.S. ​Self-portrait on accessible

by Between literally placing it in Which brings us back Mexico to Supreme.

Kruger the Borderline and the public United spaces: haspainting been on ​buses​ , the States isher oneart where her love​sides of an responded tosuch the controversy directly back independent, pre-colonial Mexico is clearly of , ​skate parks​ , and more. in buildings​ 2017. Supreme, ironically, had attempted contrasted with her negative experiences of the to sue another company for imitating their United States.

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I’m waiting for 1989 all of was art piece for the them toMarch sue on me for copyright Women’s Washington, and it infringement.” reflects her pro-choice sentiments while calling cis women to action over their reproductive rights.

Of course, there is so much more to learn and honor about Frida Kahlo. It is important that she is not whitewashed and that the legacy of her beliefs live on just as much as her image.

Though she would later be claimed as a figurehead for different feminist movements, there was more to her work and her life than can be revealed in these one-dimensional understandings of her. To continue thinking about Frida and her legacy, there is an exhibition of her artwork ​at the Brooklyn Museum running from February 8–May 12, 2019, and ​Teen Vogue and ​The Independent offer articles that can serve as starting points to discuss the contrast between Frida’s image being commodified and the actual politics she stood for.

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Headlines of the Month Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey Introduce Green New Deal

Kenya Postpones Court Decriminalizing Gay Sex

Decision

on

On March 15th during Friday prayers, two Representative Alexandria New Ocasio-Cortez and mosques in Christchurch, Zealand faced Senator Edward J Markey have recently mass shootings​. Shooter Brenton Tarrant first introduced a congressional resolution, Called targeted Masjid Al Noor, killing 42 worshippers, the ​Green New aimed at killing limiting and then moved on toDeal Linwood Masjid, 7. greenhouse gas emissions and making other Tarrant supposedly used several firearms that significant changes in the United States in order were legally purchased (but are suspected to to combat climate change. The resolution have been enhanced), and there were proposes a “10-year mobilization” or a “Green explosives attached to multiple vehicles at the New Deal mobilization” that involves sites of the attacks. . Authorities have reported completely transitioning to the use of that thereandis zero-emission clear Tarrantenergy wouldsources, have renewable continued to attack mosques had he not been upgrading all buildings in the United States to caught.

Tarrant also live streamed the attack on power-efficient buildings, eliminating pollution Facebook and left gas a 74-page anti-immigrant and greenhouse emission from the manifesto.

Australian, manufacturing Tarrant, industry, who’s the transportation supposedly came Christchurchindustry, for the sole industry, and thetoagricultural and creating new, jobs in training clean energy purpose for high-paying other people and industries. for Thethis proposal towards preparing attack.also Fourworks people were eliminating climate change, arrested andinequalities suspectedaround of having connections and demands that all people in the United to the incident, but Tarrant is the only one who States have clean air and water, climate and has been ​charged with murder. With the whole community resiliency, healthy food, access country reeling from this rare instance to of nature, and a sustainable environment. immense gun violence, New Zealand Prime Ocasio-Cortez and Markey have introduced this Minister Jacinda Ardern has already taken steps resolution because Greenhouse gas emissions to change ​New Zealand’s gun laws. ​Ardern has are the cause of some of the worst assured that, starting mid-April, there will be an consequences of climate change. According to official ban on assault rifles. Furthermore, the research that this proposition cites, carbon Ardern has are establishing emissionsisin planning the UnitedonStates rose by 3.4%a buy-back program in order to confiscate of last year, and if climate change proceeds inallthis the newlypattern bannedthe weapons. current world will face extreme natural disasters and the United States alone will lose billions of dollars. According to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the resolution will be brought to the floor for a vote within the next few weeks.

Anti-leftist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro This Friday, February 22nd, Kenya’s high court and his administration have released planswas to scheduled to rule on d ​ ecriminalizing gay sex​ take ​women’s and LGBTQ history out of school.

However, the judges have claimed that more time textbooks​. These plans have been one of many is needed to review the evidence, and as a result, moves made by President Bolsonaro to the vote has been ​postponed until May​. This vote drastically change the education system of was going to be major landmark for LGBTQ+ Brazil.

In addition to proposing the changes to Kenyans, who face immense discrimination on the textbooks, Education Ministry has basis of their the sexuality.

Many of them are barred from promotions, for certain, jobs, disbanded it’s getting diversityhired department​ and and having access to education and health Bolsonaro has previously made comments services.

Furthermore, many experience physical about getting rid of questions about women’s harassment, abuse, and incarceration.

Activists and LGBTQ rights movements from national claim that the vote not only has a wide influence exams. For Bolsonaro, these drastic changes to on Kenya, but other African countries as well. Gay the are reasonable responses sex education is illegal insystem most African countries, but the to the low ranking of Brazilian educational issue has recently been brought to attention in systems by theAngola, ​OECD​. He claimsgaythatsex “​Onewas of places like where decriminalized January, and Botswana, the goals to getback Brazilinout of the worst positions where the matter will be voted on inisMarch.

The in international education rankings to combat opposition to repealing the law comes primarily the Marxist rubbish that has spread in from religious groups, .” such Kenyan educational institutions​ Manyasof the Bolsonaro’s Christian Professionals Forum, who claim that reforms are an attack on the legacy of ​Paulo same-sex relationships are examples of damaging Freire​ prominentand latethat Brazilian who sexual, aperversion there socialist is a history believed in equal education supported by the within Kenyan culture of excluding homosexuality. federal to the immense Advocatesgovernment. for repealingDue the laws say the exact backlash Bolsonaro’s to opposite: received that a by history of plans accepting homosexuality has been prevalent in Kenyan change textbooks, officials claimed that the culture.had Advocates for the lawbyalso point to plans been developed a previous Kenya’s landmark 2 ​ 010 constitution​ , which is administration and were accidentally published. revered for being progressive. According to these However, there is still a threat of drastic advocates, it would be hypocritical for the Kenyan changes to the education system. Current government to claim to ensure the rights of its Education Minister Ricardo strongly citizens in the constitution whileVelez still supporting stands with Bolsonaro and has vowed to fight laws that clearly discriminate against a portion of back theseagainst citizens.“gender ideology.”

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Headlines of the Month Equal Rights Amendment Failed to Pass in Virginia

This month, the Virginian state government had the opportunity to become the needed 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Organizers and participants of Amendment Malaysia’s (ERA);

a

piece

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legislation,

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riginating in 1923 International Women’s Day march have been, that states “Equality of rights under the law targeted by the government and extremist shall not be denied or abridged by the United conservative The march, which was held States or by groups. any state on account of sex.”

The ERA was 9th, passed by Congress in 1972, and but on March was attended by hundreds required the of 38demands: states by 1982 to focused on approval five central to end become official. By 1982 only 35 states had violence based on gender and sexual given their approval. Despite the fact that the orientation, end child marriages, ensure a deadline is expired, many advocates for the ERA woman's freedom to to make choices over her have initiated efforts extend or eradicate the deadline so that upon the a approval a 38th own body and life, ensure dignified of minimum state, could have the of potential to wage, the and ERA ensure the still destruction patriarchy. become a national law. Illinois and Nevada have Since allies and members of the LGBTQ both approved the amendment since the 1982 community demonstrated their support for one the deadline, leaving the country with only march, anti‑LGBTQ amendment. groups criticized and state left to ratify the During the state

government’s

46‑day

General

Assembly attacked the march online, stripping many of session, Virginia was given the opportunity to their privacy and threatening them. be that final state . Efforts to get the amendment Furthermore, five days after the march, it was passed in Virginia have failed before, but announced that more the seven organizers were to this be advocates were hopeful of its success year this with the the party probed by year the police for aDemocrats, potential violation of that

had

demonstrated

the

most

support

for

the the Peaceful Assembly Act and the Sedition Act. amendment, almost having the majority House The organizer’s responded to the of Delegates. The ERA passed in the Senate, but announcement that willing to comply was voted against in they the were House subcommittee. with probe, are but critical felt as of though it was being Many the activists the fact that the amendment not them seen due by ato full committee unfairly used was against their cause. In and

suggest

that

if

the

amendment

had fact, the organizers explicitly followed the been rules allowed this provision, it might have been set out by the Peaceful Assembly Act by passed. Although Virginia did not become the notifying officials days before the march.

In state to save the ten ERA, North Carolina will be undergoing a similar process which addition, the Sedition Act is ina March vague in piece of the ERA will be once again considered legislation that has historically been used for to ratification.

prohibit any criticism of the government.

A Record Number of 6 Women are Running for President

The 2020 presidential election has more Friday, 22nd, Saavedra Roman, Ina women March running in Selene it than ever before. flight attendant and have Deferred for previous years, there been n oAction more than two

women

running

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the Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient from Peru, same time. In the 2020 presidential election, was released from an immigration detention however, six women have already declared center after 6 weeks being detained . She was their candidacy. of The candidates include scheduled to fly to Mexico her airline, Mesa Massachusetts Senator by Elizabeth Warren, California Senator Harris, Minnesota airlines, early last Kamala February, but due to the Senator

Amy

Klobuchar,

New

York

Senator unstable nature of the DACA program she had Kirsten Gillibrand, Hawaiian Congresswoman to ask the company if she would be let back into Tulsi Gabbard, and author Marianne the United States.

Unfortunately, the running airline Williamson.

All of these women are mistakenly told bher that she would be to as Democrats, ut their platforms are able vastly different.

For instance, one of Senator reenter the United States without a problem, Klobuchar’s

main

focuses

of

her

campaign is unaware of the fact that under the Trump combating the opioid crisis, while Senator Administration DACA return to Harris is known for recipients her focus cannot on civil rights the States after traveling abroad . Not and United her legislation for middle‑class tax‑cuts.

Not only will the Roman 2020 elections be historical only is Saavedra a DACA recipient, but for the number of women running and for she was mere recently approved

by Citizenship office, but for the opportunity for women to Immigration Services to apply for a green card be considered and supported for their values since she is married to simply an American citizen. and arguments, and not because they Nonetheless, it took a month a doubt half of that her are female candidates.

There and is no this surge of female candidates running for husband, David Watkins, her lawyer, and the president was encouraged by and ato part of Association of Flight Attendants‑CWA finally the wave of women who were elected to get her out of the detention center. According congress this past year in the midterm to her husband, Saavedra struggled with elections, in what some Roman deemed to be “The anxiety and depression while being inside the Year of the Woman.” detention center, unsure when she would be

able to leave. As of now, there are around

700,000 individuals protected by DACA status, but the program is no longer accepting any new applicants.

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Happy Women’s Month! Enjoy this month’s picks of inspirational women to honor and Michelle cherish during Month.

This (2018), month ​is her Obama’s Women’s latest book, Becoming we’ve got short stories! autobiographical memoir. The book sold approximately 725,000 copies in the United States on the first day, making it the second -​Mayannah Beauvoir, Content creator for the Bella Bulletin best- selling debut of all books sold in 2018. The book reached

1.4 million copies in the first week, and in about two weeks,

Wild: From Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed is a memoir that tracks her solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. In 1995, Strayed hiked 1,100 miles from became the best-sold book of the year in 2018. This the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon all the way to the Bridge of the Gods inbook Washington. record-breaking is taking the world by storm, captivating a

The journey with Strayed expressing her disillusionment with the wide variety of readers, scholars, and critics. begins In ​Becoming ​, Michelle Obama tells the story of

death of her mother from lung cancer. She was very distant from the remainder of her her family, her as father, brother,meeting and sister.her Herhusband, downward her life growing up on the south side of Chicago, time a lawyer, spiral had a huge impact on her marriage to her husband. The two divorced and she being began a using opioids.She In order change her life,her andlife endand her Barack Obama as well as her experience mother. takesto readers into suffering, she decided to partake on this trail, alone, with zero hiking the experiences that wholead she is. She shares theandhighlights of motivated her life as as experience.

Wild shows thehave storiesmade of her her life that to her downward spiral the ones that herwell to keep going on her journey. She had many spiritual awakenings on the journey as well as physical and mental challenges. The the disappointments.

From and a wise perspective, Michelle inspires readers to be the book is a New York Times Bestseller is included in Oprah’s Book Club. It Obama was published in 2012.

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authors of their own truths, their own stories and overcome the odds.

Feminist Five “Everywill girl, noyou matter where she lives, deserves theor

“Nobody protect from your su ering.

You can't cry it away eat opportunity it away or starve or walk itthe away punch it away or even toit awaydevelop orpromise inside of therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to her.”it.-Michelle

endure You have toObama live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”-Cheryl Strayed

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, the first Black First Lady of the United States of America, was born on January 17th, 1964. She is married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Michelle grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a city water plant employee. The family lived in the South Shore community area,

which she rented from her great aunt. She attended Princeton University, following her brother to the same school and graduated cum laude in 1985. She Strayed is her an teachers American writer, and to podcast host. She recalls inCheryl her memoir that advised her novelist to not apply an Ivy League was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania in 1968. She later moved to school for fear of setting expectations that were too high. Upon attending Princeton she explained that it was Minnesota, where her parents divorced. She lived in a home that her the first time that she was aware of her race. family built, themselves, which did not have electricity, or plumbing Post graduation, she earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School with more confidence. She later worked until she moved away for college. at the law firm, Sidley and Austin, where she met Barack Obama. Michelle also worked as an assistant to the Chicago mayor in 1991. Obama gained important position 1996 as executive director of acommunity

She an graduated from the in University of Minnesota with BA in English

affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

She worked there 2008 when the lung primary campaign for was and Women’s Studies.

Her until mother died from cancer when she presidency began. a senior in college. She frequently writes about the impact of her Michelle Obama became onemother’s death on her life. of the most prolific celebrities of her time as First Lady of the United

States. She played an exceptionally active role in issues and campaigns that mattered to her. Some of the major In addition women’s to her memoir, Wild, and aand few novels, Strayed has issues that she countered were homelessness, rights, LGBT rights, health of children.

She also published

work

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Washington

Post ,

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New

York

Times ,

Vogue,

Tin

House ,

and

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papers garnered a successful public image in popular culture, for her fashion statements, discipline and presence. Her and magazines. She also contributed to a popular advice column in The Rumpus, known as “Dear Sugar”. She has latest venture post‑presidency has been the release of her memoir Becoming , in 2018.

also co‑hosted the Dear Sugars podcast for four years. She considers herself a feminist activist.

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American Museum of Natural History​ various teen programs run through the American Museum of

Black Natural Girls Code Historyoffers programming and events in coding for African American girls.

Black Girls Code​ offers and eventsand in coding for African American girls.

Brotherhood/Sister Sol programming offers afterschool summer programming in relationshipbuilding, self/global awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of Brotherhood/Sister Sol​ offers afterschool and summer programing in relationship-building, self/global their programs are gender-specific. awareness, social justice, leadership development, and more. Some of their programs are gender-specific.

ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

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Curious Jane offers classes and summer programming in science, theatre, arts and crafts, and more for girls.

Columbia University​ pre-college programs for high school students run through Columbia University.

DigitalCurious Girl, Inc. at high to provideinprogramming andand offers Jane​ works offers classes and schools summer programming science, theatre, in artsSTEM and crafts, moretech for workshops girls. for the community.

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GOALS for Girls offers year‑round programming, a summer intensive, weekend forums, and internships in STEM for middle and high school girls.

LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small‑group mentoring for young Latinas.

Life is Precious offers individual and groups counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and nutritional and fitness activities to prevent suicide among young Latinas.

Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and advocacy, as well as mentoring for girls in grades 6‑12.

Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high school girls.

NYU GSTEM is a six‑week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in physical activity and healthy living.

Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues faced by young women of color.

Summer Health Professions Education Program a free summer enrichment program for college students pursuing health professions.

The Whitney Museum of Art arts programs and events for teens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and media programming for girls ages 13‑19.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers after‑school and summer music programming for girls.

Young Women's Christian Association an organization that informs women on societal issues that affect them and encourages them to vote

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