Elizabeth Ayala, Author at Women's Foundation California

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 […]