WPI Local
As the name suggests, our WPI Local training focuses on building strong advocates ready to craft local policy and shape community budgets. Each WPI-Local cohort is made up of teams from various counties around the state. WPI-Local is conducted in both English and Spanish.
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Applications for WPI-Local are now CLOSED.
WPI-Local Issue Areas:
The Women’s Foundation California’s Women’s Policy Institute (WPI) focuses on shaping just policies that will positively impact the lives of non-binary and genderqueer people, cisgender and transgender women, and transgender men in California. This year, WPI-Local aims to feature teams working to address racism, anti-Blackness, and cis-hetero-patriarchy through the following specific areas:
For representatives of organizations that work to create places where families and communities are healthy, safe as is possible within our current systems. Health includes more than physical conditions; health has social, cultural and economic impacts on the well-being of communities. Health is also determined by racial, gender and economic circumstances, with direct ties to the history of anti-Blackness and oppression in our country.
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For representatives of organizations that work to create places where families and communities are healthy, safe as is possible within our current systems. Health includes more than physical conditions; health has social, cultural and economic impacts on the well-being of communities. Health is also determined by racial, gender and economic circumstances, with direct ties to the history of anti-Blackness and oppression in our country.
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Marquise Davis
Child Development Specialist
Iris Gamez
Communications & Community Engagement Coordinator
Daisy Hernandez
Friends, Family and Neighbors Educator
For representatives of organizations that work to address the harmful and oppressive impacts that the criminal justice system has on the lives of Californians, especially those impacted by racial and gender injustice.
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Rocio Herrera
Director of Programs
Alicia Martinez-Vargas
Health Educator
Cecilia Reyes
Community Engagement Specialist
Samantha Ruiz
Community Outreach Coordinator
For representatives of organizations that work to create places where families and communities are healthy, safe as is possible within our current systems. Health includes more than physical conditions; health has social, cultural and economic impacts on the well-being of communities. Health is also determined by racial, gender and economic circumstances, with direct ties to the history of anti-Blackness and oppression in our country.
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Kimberly Calvin
Executive Director
Rosa Cendejas
Volunteer
Alejandra Rishton
Self-employed
Miranda Sheffield
Self Employed
Mary Valdemar
SBVC Library Secretary
For representatives of organizations that work to create places where families and communities are healthy, safe as is possible within our current systems. Health includes more than physical conditions; health has social, cultural and economic impacts on the well-being of communities. Health is also determined by racial, gender and economic circumstances, with direct ties to the history of anti-Blackness and oppression in our country.
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Zizi Bandera
Program Manager
Pau Crego
Deputy Director
Jackson James “JM” Jaffe
Founder, Consultant
G. Gabriela Rossi
RN Manager