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Organizations That Need Your Help
There are a lot of ways to get involved in the gender equality movement. Find the cause that matches your interests and visit their websites to learn how you can support them.
This organization aims to end gender disparity in computer science through after-school clubs, summer programs, and internships. You can help their mission by starting a Girls who Code club at your school, even if you have NO coding experience. You can also fundraise, volunteer, or help spread the word about the program in your community.
This organization empowers girls to feel happy, confident, and powerful in their bodies through the sport of running. The 10 week after-school and summer programs culminate in a 5k the girls run with volunteer running buddies. You can sign up as a coach or running buddy, or join your local council to support the program.
Girls Inc. brings girls-only programming into schools and community centers to help them live healthy, educated, and independent lives. With programming on everything from self defense to sexuality and economic literacy, there's plenty of opportunities for volunteers to draw on their backgrounds in teaching young women.
Emily's List supports the election of female pro-choice candidates to office. Whether you're interested in becoming a candidate or supporting one, there's space for men and women to support female candidates. You can help turn out the vote, attend a training for future candidates, or work on a campaign.
To make the image cards uniform in size and shape you'll have to do a little work. Google image search the organization's logo and save the image to your computer. Log into canva.com and create a new blank design of custom dimensions (we used 300x300). Upload and add the logo to the design, download the design, upload it here, and repeat!
Interview about Gender Equality
In this interview with professor Alina Das from NYU, Oriana Gonzalez asks about Professor Das's entrance into immigration law, what she does as the supervising attorney of NYU's immigrant rights clinic, and what Das thinks it means to be an American. (Now imagine this interview was actually about gender equality and related to the organizations listed...that would make a lot more sense).
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so how did you decide to go into immigration law?
well as the daughter of immigrants and a woman of color it was really important to me to learn how to use law as a tool for social change. I knew that there's a lot of racial injustice in this country and I wanted to learn how to do something about it and then when I came to law school I was a student in the immigrant rights clinic which I now teach and really saw firsthand the way that our nation's laws really discriminate against marginalized immigrants and communities of color so I decided to go into that field after law school that's amazing so
what do you do what did you do in your job?
well I co-teach the immigrant rights clinic which is a law school clinic meeting that law students are getting their first-hand experience in representing immigrants and immigrant rights organizations in their campaign so we work with immigrants who are facing deportation either because they're kind of targeted by federal immigration officials when they're traveling or even in their homes or because they've had some sort of interaction in the criminal justice system and the way the laws work is that immigrants really face kind of a double punishment so we come in at that stage to try and protect their rights and defend their ability to stay in the country and we also work with organizations that are really fighting campaigns and and for policy changes and really trying to advance their own rights as immigrant communities
so do you feel like coming from a home where there were any friends you have kind of
like a difference perspective how do you feel that affects your job
well I definitely come into work every day with the perspective of a woman of color what it means to grow up in this country and be viewed differently based on people's perceptions of what it means to be an American and I think there's a real collective experience that many immigrants have and people who come from those families whether you're born here or not if you consider America your home you want to be treated that way you want to be treated as an equal as somebody who has every bit of passion and and love for this country as anyone else and who has the right to you have our views expressed and so when I see the way that immigrants are treated and I really do think it's based in a lot of structural racism and the way the country really views who does and doesn't belong here it really hits home because I know that's something that affects my family and affects people that I very much care about so I definitely come into work with that personal perspective but I think that anyone who wants to go into this works if I for immigrant rights can bring in their own personal perspectives because it's about kind of human rights and the fundamental liberties that we should all have
um so do you think that, um what do you think it means to be American?
well I think it's about owning your sense of place and there are people who grow up here in New York City every day regardless of where they were born who are New Yorkers and that's as much a part of their identity as you know their culture language religion culture all the things that we think of when we define ourselves and you know particularly doing this work in New York it's exciting because being a New Yorker and being an American really means celebrating our differences and what we bring to the country and what we bring to our communities and so I think it's really about self-definition and what people define as their home and immigrants a lot of immigrants were being targeted by immigration laws are people who very much consider the United States their home and have put as much into this country as anyone else has so so I think it's really about you know owning your place and really feeling like this is your home and and anyone can really be an American if you use that kind of definition
Here you could talk about some of the interesting parts of the interview and what your group remembers the most. Was there an important lesson about people can get involved? How did this person get her/his start in the field and how can others follow in their footsteps?