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Pictures from the 3rd Annual YWI Powerful Voice Awards Preview Party

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Congratulations YWInnovate Award Winners Jasmine Oglesby and Erica Smith!

At the 3rd Annual YWI Powerful Voice Awards Preview Party, we awarded the inaugural YWInnovate Award to Jasmine Oglesby and Erica Smith, of the CHOP Adolescent Initiative at the Juvenile Justice Services Center after a very close vote. Jasmine and Erica are stellar advocates for young people, and their work centers around providing comprehensive sexuality education from a trauma-informed perspective, teaching self-advocacy skills around sexual decision-making, helping youth engage in their own healthcare, and advocate for youth in the juvenile justice system. 

(In case you missed it, you can read more about their work in this profile.)

Back: Emily Fredrick, Liz Pride, and Ewuraekua Nunoo-Tanikie (YWI co-choairs) Front: Roxanne Sutocky, Jasmine Oglesby, Erica Smith, Aarati Kasturirangan & her daughter Asha. 

The finalist field for the YWInnovate Award was very strong, and we’re so glad that we could learn more about the incredible work being done by all the finalists, and celebrate them and highlight their work! Roxanne Sutocky is a patient advocate at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center, who provides compassion and support for patients making reproductive choices in a very fraught-political climate. Aarati Kasturirangan is the Director of Programs at the Bread and Roses Community Fund, a foundation making grants to groups that are working on social justice issues. Roxanne, Jasmine, Erica, and Aarati all have incredibly important and fulfilling jobs, and they all deserve commendation for being fantastic activists in the Greater Philadelphia region! Congratulations to all the YWInnovate Award Finalists, and congratulations again to Erica and Jasmine!

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WOMEN’S WAY offers a very comprehensive approach for a multitude of issues surrounding women and girls. Knowing that I could engage further with many different types of issues rather than committing to just one is an advantage for me.

Angela Nace, YWI 

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YWI is a special community whose members look out for one another and encourage one another to learn and grow as feminists.

Leah Dirkse, Marketing Committee Member

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#friends #ywiphl (at Adventure Aquarium)

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#ywiphl #womensway Gala in Currents Ballroom. The awe was palpable (at Adventure Aquarium)

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Sex Workers’ Rights Link Roundup

“You can be a feminist and a sex worker”

Sex Workers’ Rights are Human Rights

Red Umbrella Project activist discusses sex workers in NYC

NPR’s story on African Americans and the racial politics of the sex industry

Tapestry of Life: Sex Workers, Sex Trade, and Health: video

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12 Essential Things Invented by a Woman

I spy with my little eye...an answer to one of tonight’s quizzo questions.

YWI is hosting Feminist Quizzo at 123 S Broad Street. Education is delicious with your favorite adult beverage.

RSVP here: https://womensway.org/events/ywi-feminist-quizzo