Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

When I was growing up in Connecticut, I never thought about life far beyond my own small town until a women’s organization was created at my high school my junior year. Woodland Worldwide was inspired by Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity...

Three summers ago, on a church trip to Costa Rica, Jessica Bird witnessed firsthand the repercussions of sex trafficking when she volunteered at a safe house. There, she befriended a 17-year-old American citizen from Florida who was trafficked by her...

In 2008 a colleague and l were in Uganda’s capital Kampala to attend an awareness session on domestic violence in minority communities. The organizers, a lesbian group, were partly funded by our organization, the African Women’s Development...

Jaha Dukureh
I am often asked, “Out of all the survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) in America, why did you start a campaign against the practice?”
Every day I live with the fact that something was taken away from me at a very young age. Not understanding what it would have meant or felt like if I had not gone through FGM is something that will forever haunt me....