By: On Mama’s Day, Recognizing Young Mothers & Strong Families | Third Wave Foundation

Wed, 04 May 2011 21:41:24 +0000

[...] at The Frisky, Adriann Barboa (director of Young Women United) offers a smart take on how we can support young parents in our communities: When I see the dismal [...]

By: No More Lives Erased: Young Women United’s Call to End Violence | Third Wave Foundation

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:24:15 +0000

[...] Young Women United (YWU) is a Third Wave grant partner organization working to end violence against women with a two-fold campaign: calling attention to the deaths of young women in their community in New Mexico, and holding the media and public officials accountable for the ways these women’s lives and power are erased, even in death. In the wake of the mass shooting at Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s town hall in Arizona, YWU’s director Adriann Barboa shares a powerful remembrance and vision for “an America to be as good as these women needed it to be:” Two years ago today, in a story that shook me to my core, a woman walking her dog found a femur in the desert. She alerted the police, who began a three-month dig, covering a vast area of the mesa near my home. The police found the bodies of 11 women, one of whom was four months pregnant. Many of the women were close to my age and grew up here like me. Were brown like me. Had struggled here, like me. [...]

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By: On Mama’s Day, Recognizing Young Mothers & Strong Families | Third Wave Foundation

By: No More Lives Erased: Young Women United’s Call to End Violence | Third Wave Foundation