2024 Women of Vision Awards Seeding Solidarity & Sisterhood

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Women of
Vision Awards

On Tuesday May 14th, 2024, join the Ms. Foundation for Women at the Weylin in Williamsburg for the annual Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards, honoring women, girls and gender-expansive people who galvanize communities and drive change. This year’s theme, “Seeding Solidarity & Sisterhood,” reflects the intentions of the Ms. Foundation at a time of cultural division; it’s a call for unity and a reminder of our interconnectedness. Relationships are what help us flourish and thrive, and the Ms. Foundation cherishes the relationships with our sisters and siblings that transcend gender and strengthen our human bonds with one another.

The event will feature Foundation leaders including board members and staff; special guest performances and celebrity presenters; and ground-breaking grassroots grantee partners and feminist leaders who will be recognized as Women of Vision. We’ll also celebrate the seeds the thsn Ms. Foundation is planting in its new home in Brooklyn, and recognize a powerful decade of growth for the organization led by President & CEO Teresa C. Younger.

The Women of Vision Awards is the Ms. Foundation’s largest annual fundraising event, honoring leading feminist advocates, activists and thought-leaders working for gender and racial equity. Past honorees include poet Amanda Gorman, filmmaker and screenwriter Ava DuVernay, journalist and editor Elaine Welteroth, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Ms. Foundation

For more than 50 years, the Ms. Foundation for Women has shaped women’s philanthropy in the United States, providing a blueprint for the establishment of hundreds of local and regional women’s funds, influencing mainstream culture through nationwide projects such as Take Our Daughters to Work Day, and making grants totaling over $90 million to more than 1,600 grassroots organizations across the country. Through research, advocacy, and grantmaking, the Ms. Foundation is the national model for sustainable, trust-based philanthropic support of women of color-led movements. With equity and inclusion as the cornerstones of true democracy, the Ms. Foundation works to create a world in which the worth and dignity of every person are valued, and power and possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or age. Visit www.forwomen.org for more.

50th Anniversary Women of Vision Recap
Jamarah Amani
Jamarah Amani
Woman of Vision Award
Executive Director, Southern Birth Justice Network

Jamarah Amani, LM is a community midwife who believes in the transformative and healing power of birth and that every baby has a human right to human milk. Her mission is to do her part to build a movement for Birth Justice locally, nationally and globally. Jamarah is the architect of the Birth Justice framework, the Black Midwives Model of Care and the Birth Justice Bill of Rights.

Rhiannon Carnes
Rhiannon Carnes
Woman of Vision Award
Executive Director, Ohio Women’s Alliance

Rhiannon Carnes’ drive to make change and create brave spaces to build community runs deep. As the daughter of a lifelong artist, writer, and advocate—Faye Childs—Rhiannon knew from a young age that if you want to see real change happen, you have to get to work.

Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon
Marie C. Wilson Award
President, Meadow Fund

Lateefah Simon has spent her career fighting for justice — fighting for folks without a voice. Now, as a 25-year veteran organizer and nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and social justice, she’s running to take this fight to congress. Lateefah began her career in advocacy at age 16 as an outreach coordinator for the Young Women’s Freedom Center.

Featuring

DJ Mary Mac of NYC

After Party DJ

Mary was introduced to the art of turntables and mixing by her older brother while he practiced daily in the basement of their family’s Rosedale, Queens home. Barely a teen, yet highly intrigued by the techniques of the many notable DJ’s of that era, Mary began working diligently to hone and perfect her skills to also become a talented disc jockey.

Sponsors

Marguerite Casey Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
New York Life
New York Life
For more information on sponsorship, please email Bri Barnett
at bbarnett@ms.foundation.org

Host Committee

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founding mothers

  • Patricia carbine
  • letty cottin pogrebin
  • gloria steinem
  • marlo thomas
  • marie c. wilson (Honorary)

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