OpEd by Equity Agenda Founder Heidi Gerbracht, Originally Published at Rewire Roe v. Wade will fall, and abortion will almost certainly become illegal in most of the South and Midwest when the Supreme Court rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In places like my home state of Texas, abortion is already only a […]
Today’s post is not about policy, nor about specific solutions. It is simply some reflections about how our views on public safety are shaped by our gender and race, that are most relevant for fellow White people. Recently I was fortunate to co-facilitate a small cohort on policing through the Women Mayors Network. I am […]
In the last year, Equity Agenda has assisted several direct service nonprofits (see the list on our partners page!) with gender equity missions to create new relationships with city government. We are very proud to announce that over $320,000 in brand new funds have been secured for partner nonprofits through Equity Agenda’s expertise and technical […]
City governments spend a lot of time building and maintaining infrastructure of various kinds. And they’re the level of government that is left on the hook when infrastructure fails. During the pandemic, it became clear to communities beyond the usual suspects that our country’s at best minimalist and piecemeal care infrastructure was severely underfunded, where […]
Paid family leave work is truly one of the most rewarding, broad impact policies to work towards, especially at the community level. In an earlier blog post I mentioned that a broad paid family leave program is better than a targeted paid maternity leave program. There are lots of reasons why: Paid maternity leave only […]
I can be a glass-half-empty kind of person. As we’re all still one-day-at-a-timing it a year into this pandemic, the impacts of it continue to compound. While men appear to suffer more severe cases of COVID19 and die of the disease at greater rates than women, all of the terrible impacts of the disease that […]
Happy New Year! While it was tempting to hope that 2021 would bring dramatic changes quickly, of course many of our lingering crises from 2020 and before remain, including the pandemic. Additionally, 2021 has now begun with domestic terrorists taking over our US Capitol, a building which belongs to all of us, in a shocking-but-not-surprising […]
Despite a 133% increase in the number of woman mayors between 2011-2017, and more elected in the elections since then, still only around 18% of mayors are women. Back in January, which feels like a million years ago, my nonprofit Equity Agenda partnered with the Mayors Innovation Project to launch the Women Mayors Network […]
Communities around the country, in response to uprisings after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, are discussing what it means to “defund the police.” These conversations, and the sea change in public perception that has followed, are only possible because of decades of organizing and activism by Black leaders. “Defund the police” […]
I launched Equity Agenda a little over a year ago to bring together my two central passions: gender equity and local government. It’s been a whirlwind year, and it’s nice to take a break and think about Equity Agenda’s origin story. I had been working in and with city governments for years. (The picture above […]