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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

Small Business Administration 2022 Woman Small Business Champion of the Year and one of the country’s 50 fastest growing women-led companies by Women’s Presidents Organization and JP Morgan Chase. But I pushed myself, worked really hard doing big projects, developing policies and procedures.” She was named a U.S.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. The midwife, well known as a healer in Black communities, came to the house and “caught the baby.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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