On February 20, 2013, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now hosted their 6th Annual Legislate THIS! – Women of Color Reclaiming & Rebuilding the South. WWAV’s own Deon Haywood was one of the featured speakers, and she shared some powerful stories about the history and legacy of WWAV and how we do “the work.” Check out the video […]
WWAV's Shaquita Borden is Awarded the Billy R. Cox Endowed Scholarship
WWAV is thrilled to announce that Shaquita Borden, our Director of Program Development, has just been awarded the Billy R. Cox Endowed Scholarship to support of her doctoral studies in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Billy Cox grew up in Bessemer, Alabama. He was vice-president of his high school senior class and went […]
Women's Lives are on the Legislative Chopping Block… AGAIN!
Since 2012, WWAV has been a partner of the Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program (LBCHP), helping close to 16,000 low-income, no-income, uninsured and underserved women gain access to life-saving tests for breast and cervical cancer each year. We’ve taken it to the streets, we’ve hosted house parties with women who are alienated from the medical […]
A Space of Our Own
With the one year anniversary of the aggravated arson attack on our office quickly approaching, we want to reach out in thanks to all of our supporters – our friends, our families, our allies – for helping to see us through this hard time and to rise again like the phoenixes we are. It has […]
Project Elevation is Celebrating the Power of Women across the Globe to Overcome Violence!
This summer, the seven woman team “Project Elevation” is taking it to new heights — 19,341 feet to be exact. Starting from Louisiana, one of the lowest points in the United States, the team will be ascending to the highest point in Africa — Mount Kilimanjaro – to raise awareness for women’s global fight to overcome […]