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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.