Elizabeth Ayala, Author at Women's Foundation California

SPI State 2026 Applications Are Open!

Folks writing our laws in Sacramento don’t always reflect our communities and definitely don’t hold all the answers. For over […]

Tomorrow is the deadline. Local power is the answer.

Sunday night, at SFO, two federal agents, plain clothes, no badges visible, detained a woman in the airport terminal. Videos captured the […]

Real Change Starts Local: Meet the 2025 SPI Local Teams

If you want to understand how power works in the United States, don’t just look at Congress. Look at neighbors […]

No Borders. No Binaries. No Silence.

What we’re witnessing—ICE raids in our neighborhoods, arrests and militarized violence at protests—isn’t about public safety. It’s the choreography of […]

Welcome our Solís Policy Institute Local Class of 2022!

From Santa Cruz to Riverside, our Solís Policy Institute (SPI) Local Class of 2022 reflects the diversity of California and […]

¡Presente su solicitud!

No pierda la oportunidad de unirse a la próxima generación de creadores de cambio de políticas. El plazo de presentación […]

¿Aplicando al Instituto de Políticas Locales de las Mujeres?

¿Preparado para sacar a relucir su poder político local? Las solicitudes para el Instituto de Políticas Locales de las Mujeres […]

La solicitud de WPI-Local 2022 ha abierto

¿Estás listo/a para contribuir a fortalecer tu comunidad y cambiar la situación actual a nivel local? ¡Nuestro Instituto de Política […]

Changing Policy at the Local Level: WPI-Local 2017-2018

April 24, 2018 Written by Elizabeth Ayala, Senior Program Associate, Women’s Foundation of CA “The Women’s Policy Institute has changed […]