Archive
Together with the Los Angeles Times, we reported on California’s child care providers with data showing that over 9000 centers in the state had permanently or temporarily closed. The article was an Apple News top story and was read by over 500,000 (by Rikha Sharma Rani for Los Angeles Times, syndicated by Yahoo News, mentioned in Politico CA Playbook.)
In TIME we were among the first to draw attention to the economic impact of COVID on women (by Xanthe Scharff for TIME).
Federal data on race and gender in the immediate economic aftermath of the pandemic was limited and policies were being crafted without sufficient understanding of the impact on vulnerable workers. We called on the federal government to release more robust disaggregated data weekly (by Susan Smith Richardson and Xanthe Scharff for The Boston Globe).
In California, the pandemic devastated the $3 billion nail industry. Three out of four manicurists are of Vietnamese descent (by contributor Erica Hellerstein for San Francisco Chronicle).
We featured a homeless mother struggling to find shelter in Los Angeles during COVID-19 and her advocacy for abandoned properties to be used to house families. Following, activists successfully negotiated with the city to use vacant properties (by contributor Colleen Hagerty for Marie Claire).
The pandemic exacerbated the crisis in Black maternal mortality in Wisconsin, where Black mothers were dying at five times the rate of white mothers pre-pandemic (by Jessica Washington for The Fuller Project).
We profiled Bonnie Castillo, head of National Nurses United, the day that she appeared before Congress. Reporting led the The New York Times homepage (by Rikha Sharma Rani).
From Nigeria, we reported on the impact of the U.S. elections on family planning resources (by contributor Shola Lawal and Sophia Jones for Foreign Policy).
In California, a homeless delivering mother was informed that her doula would not be allowed into the hospital and of a new policy for 39-week inductions. Following, Kaiser Permanente released a statement to better explain to patients the reasons for 39-week induction (by contributor Eileen Guo for The New York Times).
Only one Black female Republican has ever held a seat in the House. Reporting featured Kathy Barnette, a Black Republican woman who ran for Pennsylvania’s 4th district (by Malcolm Burnley for Politico).
Wanda Mosely of Georgia’s Black Voters Matter and many other Black women organizers flipped the state (by Jessica Washington and Tiffany Arnold for The Guardian).
Rising evictions could disenfranchise women voters leaving them without a stable address (by contributors Malcolm Burnley and Rachel Dissel for The Fuller Project, syndicated by West Park Times and ideastream.org and sourced by The Colorado Springs Independent).
Indigenous domestic violence survivors abstain from voting to evade abusers, some of whom don’t know about or trust the Address Confidentiality Programs in 39 states (by contributor Jessica Klein for The Fuller Project and Indian Country Today).
