WWAV is excited to welcome our two newest staff members, Jenny Holl and Charles Haywood, who together will be spearheading the Louisiana statewide Ending the Epidemic (EtE) work. The process will span several months and will involve creating working groups that will develop recommendations to inform the EtE Steering Committee and Executive Committee. This plan will […]
EtE Program Manager EtE Program Associate WWAV is hiring for two new positions to advance Ending the Epidemic work in New Orleans and across the state of Louisiana! Ending the Epidemic (EtE) work is being conducted in multiple cities across the nation. In Louisiana, EtE work centered in New Orleans is a commitment by Mayor […]
Last week, Women With A Vision’s (WWAV) Deon Haywood joined New Orleans’ new Human Relations Commission, which will serve as the city’s human rights office. Haywood is a veteran human rights defender, having worked at the grassroots level for more than 30 years at the intersections of reproductive justice, economic justice, sex workers’ rights, HIV/AIDS, […]
For the last thirty years, WWAV has been working to end Mass Criminalization and advance Reproductive Justice. Working against Mass Criminalization requires us to center all of the interlocking systems of oppression that the women and girls we stand with move through daily: predatory policing, school suspensions, family separations, job instability, housing insecurity, and the […]
Sometimes we get so busy we forget to stop and celebrate our accomplishments. Luckily, our community partners and allies remind us. Last week, we were honored to accept the Orleans Public Defenders’ Clyde Merritt Award for our bail fund work designed specifically to bring Black women home to their families and communities. We believe OPD […]