NMW.O News
Victory in Black Empowerment Summit
The Victory In Black Empowerment (V.I.B.E.) Male Summit is a one day educational event for young Black middle school students in the Albuquerque area. The goals of the Summit are "to provide young boys of color opportunities to embrace themselves, achieve greater...
Shaping the Future Together
“all organizing is science fiction…social justice work is about creating systems of justice and equity in the future, creating conditions that we have never experienced.” - adrienne maree brown Dear Friends, At NewMexicoWomen.Org (NMW.O), we work daily to build a...
NMW.O Invests in Adolescent Girls of Color
NewMexicoWomen.Org recently made $100,000 in grants to organizations and initiatives serving adolescent girls of color through our 2019-2020 Adolescent Girls of Color Grant Cycle! Data indicates that adolescent girls of color face significant systemic barriers to...
NewMexicoWomen.Org at the Healthy Masculinities Retreat
In NMW.O’s 2017 report, The Heart of Gender Justice in New Mexico, community partners noted that behaviors stemming from toxic masculinity have harmful consequences for women, as well as men. Given the role men and boys play in upholding and reproducing patriarchy, in...
The Pueblo of San Felipe WIC Team Hosts their Annual World Breastfeeding Day Event
The Pueblo of San Felipe Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) held their Annual World Breastfeeding Day Event in August at the San Felipe Pueblo Black Mesa Casino Showroom. This year’s theme was, “Empowering Parents, Enable Breastfeeding”, and...
Update from the Antiracist Youth Leadership Institute
By Kiran Katira, Vanessa Apodaca and the AYLI Team The Antiracist Youth Leadership Institute (AYLI) is a collaboration of community based organizations who collectively nurture anti-racist organizing skills of young people, while fostering wellness, networking, and...