Sentences with phrase «jen poo»
Dern was joined by farmworker advocate Monica Ramirez, Michelle Williams with #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, and Meryl Streep with domestic worker advocate Ai - jen Poo.
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Veteran actress Meryl Streep, who wore a bespectacled look with an off - shoulder dress, walked the red carpet on Sunday with National Domestic Workers Alliance director and award - winning activist Ai - jen Poo.
Michelle rallied 7 others actresses to the cause who all went to the Globes with an activist, i think its worth naming their names: EMMA WATSON with MARAI LARASI, MERYL STREEP with AI - JEN POO, LAURA DERN with MONICA RAMIREZ, EMMA STONE with BILLIE JEAN KING, Shailene Woodley with CALINA LAWRENCE, Amy Poehler with SARU JAYARAMAN and Susan Sarandon with ROSA CLEMENTE.
Meryl Streep, in her interview with Ryan Seacrest — an interview she conducted with the activist Ai - jen Poo — summed up the optics of tonight's red carpet like so: «We feel sort of emboldened in this particular moment to stand together in a thick black line dividing then from now.»
Burke was one of several activists in attendance, in addition to Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United; Ai - jen Poo, executive director of National Domestic Workers Alliance; and Calina Lawrence, a musician using her art to draw attention to injustices faced by Native Americans.
Ai - jen Poo (a guest of Meryl Streep), the executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations.
Meryl Streep brought Ai - jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers» Alliance as her date, Poehler brought Saru Jayaraman of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, and Michelle Williams brought Tarana Burke, who started the #MeToo movement a decade ago.
She turned up with Ai - jen Poo, who is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Actors such as Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Emma Watson further expressed their support for the victims of abuse by choosing to bring various gender and racial justice activists as their dates, including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai - jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
More than 200 women are expected to attend, including Gloria Steinem, who is leading a campaign to pressure Council Speaker Christine Quinn to bring the measure up for a vote, Ai - jen Poo (National Domestic Workers Alliance), Marjorie Hill (Gay Men's Health Crisis), Maria Castaneda (SEIU 1199 secretary treasurer).