WWAV’s Executive Director, Deon Haywood, was recognized in TheBody.com 2010 HIV/AIDS Community Spotlight:
“One of the main takeaways from Transforming the National AIDS Response: Advancing Women’s Leadership and Participation was that there is amazing work being led by women, yet so many of these women go unrecognized. Deon Haywood is one of those women.
“Haywood runs Women With a Vision, Inc., (WWAV) in New Orleans, La. WWAV was co-founded by Haywood’s mother and several other black women in 1991 as a social service organization “to promote wellness and disease prevention for women and their families living at or below the poverty line.” It was created as a response to the non-existence of HIV prevention resources for women who were the most at risk: poor women, sex workers, women with substance abuse issues and transgender women…”
I am very glad that Laura McTighe made me aware of this website, and the work that Deon and Women with a Vision are doing. While I am quite a distance from the actual work in LA, I can and will support your efforts in any manner that I can. Keep up the good work, and know that the spirit of Philadelphia is with you.
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[…] In Louisiana, Lambda Legal has been vigorously fighting for LGBT rights on Adar v. Smith; a case where they are representing gay fathers from New York who were refused a birth certificate for their newly adopted son by the office of the Louisiana State Registrar. This past April the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the two prior court rulings that deny Adar and Smith’s son an accurate birth certificate, prompting Lambda Legal to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. Lambda Legal’s strategy has not changed much since the 1970s. Today, they still pursue impact litigation, education and advocacy to make the case for equality in state and federal court, the Supreme Court and in the court of public opinion. Political Activism Award • Deon Haywood […]