WOMEN WITH A VISION COMMUNITY VOICES PROJECT Dancers Speak OUT! A Dancers’ Safety Forum & Know Your Rights Conversation! Women With A Vision, Inc. is hosting a safe space for women who work as dancers in New Orleans’ strip clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, nightclubs, and bars to talk about their experiences and share their stories. Open […]
On Tuesday, August 11, the international human rights organization Amnesty International voted to adopt a policy “that seeks attainment of the highest possible protection of the human rights of sex workers, through measures that include the decriminalization of sex work” at their International Council Meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Women With a Vision was one of […]
Carla is a young woman in her late thirties. She dropped out of school in the ninth grade, because she “had never done well, so there was no point.” She had her first son not long after that and started dancing to provide for him. “I didn’t have an education or any skills and doing […]
Check out the video of WWAV’s Crossroads Diversion Program Coordinator, Leslie Tyler Davis, and our Gender-Based Violence Program Coordinator, Rebecca Atkinson, presenting on “The Intersection of Criminal Justice and Social Justice” to the Criminal Justice Committee of the New Orleans City Council. The presentation is at the beginning of the meeting (read the press release […]
Crossroads Press Release (PDF) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 22, 2014 CONTACT: Leslie Davis Phone: 504-301-0428 E-mail: leslie@wwav-no.org WWAV ANNOUNCES CROSSROADS DIVERSION PILOT PROGRAM An alternative to incarceration that offers counseling, skills workshops, and leadership development for women arrested for involvement in street-based sex work On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, Women With A Vision, Inc. will […]