NMW.O News
Community Care in the Time of Covid
Amidst the current challenges, we are doing our best at NMW.O to navigate these times of uncertainty. 2020 has demanded change on so many levels – with the spread of a global pandemic, and growing racial justice uprising. For NMW.O, these changes have meant adapting...
NMW.O Participates in the Governor’s Racial Justice Listening Session
Last month, NMW.O Program Co-Director, Fatima van Hattum was honored to be a panelist for a Listening Session on Racial Justice, organized by the Governor’s Advisory Council on Racial Justice. The two-hour session with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham focused on racial...
El Valle Women’s Collaborative Featured on Movement Strategy Center’s Vision Through COVID: Portals to the Future
Bueno Para Todos (BPT) is a matriarchal Indigenous-led farming project of El Valle Women's Collaborative, a non-profit located in the rural community of Villanueva, NM, and a grantee and community partner of NewMexicoWomen.Org. El Valle’s BPT project has taken an...
Brave Space Radio Interview with NMW.O Focused on our Pandemic Recovery Report!
Last week, Program Co-Directors, Renee Villarreal and Fatima van Hattum, were interviewed on KRQE’s Brave Space Radio program! With co-host Cecile Lipworth, we discussed the role of female leadership in helping communities navigate through these times, why the...
Ways to Support, Uplift and Become Better Allies to Black Trans Women Year-Round
In 2020, Black trans women have a life expectancy of 35 years. 35 years. This is devastating and unacceptable. In 2019, at least 28 transgender and gender non-conforming people lost their lives to fatal violence. We cannot talk about how all lives matter, without...
Generations of Organizing Have Brought Us to This Moment
During Pride month, we are seeing the visible result of years of community work come to fruition, as we witness the removal of statues that symbolize colonization and genocide, elected leaders publicly committing to defund the police and defend Black lives, a Supreme...