Our society has deeply embedded injustices, perpetuated implicitly and explicitly by social ideologies and systems designed to marginalize, traumatize, punish, and stigmatize girls, young women and gender expansive young people of color. Whether you see the end goal of our work as abolition or radical reimagination, we know it is personal, it is political and it is complex.

In short, whether it is our work on the Hill in Washington, DC or providing support to advocates, direct service providers or public agency staff and decision makers these core practice guide our work together:

• Change starts with girls, young women and gender-expansive young people of color (and their families when possible) most impacted leading the way to change.
• We are a national advocate grounded in a place-based approach because we know that the solutions to compelling social issues are best addressed in local communities and lifted up to inform policy and system change across the country.
• We use a collaborative approach to leverage collective power to address policy and systemic issues working across systems and fields — breaking down silos, and embracing the fact that people do not live single issue lives.
• We tell our own story, which means all of our advocacy is grounded in data, both quantitative and qualitative to fill data gaps about girls, young women and gender-expansive young people of color as the basis for policy, system, and social change.

Whether we are hosting Hill briefings, organizing listening sessions and round tables for federal agencies, providing advice to Congressional offices and committees, signing on to Amicus briefs and sign on letters, attending coalition meetings reminding folks to not forget the “girls and gender expansive young people,” or facilitating broad-based community meetings, providing technical assistance to local, county and state decision makers and advocates our work is driven by an unwavering dedication to eradicating oppression in all its forms and the barriers that spring from it in order to create ecosystems of support for girls, young women and gender-expansive young people of color.

You can learn more about the Amicus Briefs and sign-on letters we support and about our LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR LEGISLATIVE WINS & PRIORITIES