Black Girls Matter Day of Wellness
Nearly two years into a destabilizing global pandemic characterized by increased isolation, lack of face to face contact, and a rapid disruption to “normal life” as we knew it, we …
In Response to Anti-Asian Violence
Y-WE would like to express our care, respect and love for our Asian community members. This week’s terrorist violence in Atlanta, which left 8 women, 6 of whom were Asian …
A Letter from our Directors
2020 was difficult in so many ways and these first days of the new year have revealed a continuation of the same ugliness embedded in the very fabric of our country.
Y-WE’s Youth Leadership Summit
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, offering an in-person Youth Leadership Summit this May was not feasible or safe. Thus, under the creative and adaptive leadership of Program Director, Reagan Jackson, Y-WE’s Youth Leadership Summit took place online via Facebook Live, over the course of an entire week.
Y-WE Youth Speak on BLM
At Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) we center the voices of young people, especially BIPOC youth. We are honored and inspired by the young people who have chosen to share their …
Ways to take action to support Black lives
Dear Y-WE Community, This is a heartbreaking time. We face a pandemic and widespread violence in the context of hundreds of years of structural racism and institutionalized oppression. George Floyd, …