Sentences with phrase «women and people of color who»

«Part of the USP's mission from the start was to identify women and people of color who had been left out of leadership capacity pool,» Peterkin said

Most of all, he and the boys club at the Bronx Democratic Party are denying a voice to women and people of color who make up a growing majority of this community.

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The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.

«We're only going to be attractive if people look at us and we represent diversity of who they are — whether it's people of color or women,» Hooley says.

«Demographic shifts for entrepreneurship and funding are taking place now, however, we're still faced with the daunting statistic that nearly 90 % of venture capital is given to someone who isn't a women or a person of color.»

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

Theological educators who are women and people of color, Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant have participated in the discussion.

It is a source of great frustration because even though women, people of color, and people of various sexual orientations and identities are raising their voices and sometimes being heard, those at the control center are straight white men who may be or pretend to be sympathetic to their voices but are unable or unwilling to change the landscape because they're hopelessly entangled in it.

«This week I've read messages from some immigrants, women, and people of color in evangelical communities with profound sadness, and I've also heard from evangelicals who have celebrated the election results.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

My doula work is committed to supporting those who are traditionally left out of conversations about their rights and choices around reproductive justice — especially women of color, trans and queer - identified people.

«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» Murphy said in a statement this morning.

And the Senate Democrats themselves issued a statement last month condemning Felder for sticking with the GOP, saying through a spokesman that «any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values.&raqAnd the Senate Democrats themselves issued a statement last month condemning Felder for sticking with the GOP, saying through a spokesman that «any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values.&raqand our shared American values.»

This cycle, we endorsed more candidates who better reflect the diversity of our country, including more women and people of color, than ever before.

Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and it disproportionately affects women and people of color.

In his address, Cuomo said tipping disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that it subjects tipped workers to higher rates of sexual harassment than workers who aren't reliant on tips.

Many have pushed for Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Westchester County legislator who has led Senate Democrats since 2012 and is the first woman or person of color to lead a legislative conference, to be included at the negotiating table during budget and other high - level talks.

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Women, people of color, and people with disabilities, who responded to the survey, reported being stigmatized by their gender, race, or their physical condition in addition to their LGBT status.

Only a handful of women of color and plus size women have managed to break into the industry and are able to attend, which in turn limits the pool of people who get photographed.

subsidies to hire local union workers who are women and people of color.

Like Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman, Coogler's comic book movie will no doubt inspire the under - represented with its powerful depiction of a person of color who is not only a superhero, but also a leader who preaches empathy, understanding, and sincerity over cynicism and hatred.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

But its omission of subjugated characters — both women and people of color — is an issue, especially as it elevates the characters who do the subjugating.

There are still fans who are pointing out that those defending Hammer should also defend women and people of color:

«Dr. Effie Jones was a stellar career educator, who used her considerable talents to maximize opportunities and successes for students and emerging system leaders, with a focus on significantly augmenting the senior leadership pool with more woman and people of color,» Sherman said.

However, these women, who are more likely to be people of color or to speak a second language, or both, are generally not as well educated as lead teachers and are usually paid even less.

«If you don't have visual images of Dr. Mae Jemison, who is an African - American M.D. and astronaut, and if you just have only white male scientists and mathematicians — everyone, regardless of ethnicity and / or gender, will devalue, and will say, «Women can't do that» or «People of color can't do that,» because, symbolically, that's what they see.»

She likewise is friendly to slave women who show themselves to be kind, like Cleo and Nerissa, but not to those who are petty and mean, like Suki — she doesn't seem to use color as a criterion of a person's character, and is not a snob either.

Because #WeNeedDiverseBooks and I would love to prove dead wrong all the people who think a story with a woman of color on the cover can't sell.

Knowing that there are people out there who are going to not only sneer at anything I write just because I'm female (and prone to writing heroines of color, women in positions of power, and queer people), but who will actively work to shout down anything I and authors like me try to do.

Multiple women came forward about each author to share sordid stories of sexual harassment, inappropriate remarks aimed at and in front of children, and racist remarks about fellow authors who happen to be people of color.

We think this would increase risk of default for the lowest income borrowers — including a disproportionate share of low - income students, women, people of color, and veterans — who would not be able to pay an additional $ 25 every month and meet their families» basic needs.

There's a reason we're so enthusiastic about characters, developers, publishers, writers, and critics who are women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and of all different cultures and backgrounds being in or part of video games: because wider experiences broaden everyone's perspective.

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized.

«My colleagues (past and present) and I continually think about the relationship between the contemporary and historical parts of the museum's collection and exhibitions, and how they relate to the city of Baltimore,» said Kristen Hileman, the BMA's Senior Contemporary Curator since 2009, who curated Crosby's solo exhibition — a show planned years in advance of the museum's recent series of shows by women and people of color.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Selected Group Exhibitions, & Art Fairs 2018 Black Box Projects, 2 person exhibition, London Winter Song at NextLevel gallery, Paris Lights, Camera, Action, curated by Haley Finnegan at Kunstraum in Brooklyn Sitting Still at BravinLee programs 2017 «Painters and Photographers» at Providence College, Rhode Island, curated by Jamilee Polson PARIS PHOTO with NextLevel Galerie Art Market Budapest with Horizont Galeria, Budapest, Hungary Rubber Factory, NY, «Women In Colour: Women and Color Photography» curated by Ellen Carey Aspen Art Museum, Art Crush, courtesy of SOCO gallery Double Vision, Artists Who Instagram, at LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, «Along a River of Sapphire Pools» NextLevel Galerie «Full Bloom II», Paris, France 2016 PULSE Miami with Danziger Gallery UNTITLED Miami with SOCO Gallery PARIS PHOTO with NextLevel Galerie, Paris, France Davidson College Gallery, North Carolina Pallas Projects, 2 - person exhibition with Max Warsh curated by Jessamyn Fiore, Dublin, Ireland New Photography Exhibition at BAM, curated by Holly Shen David Shelton Gallery: Summerzcool Curated by Austin Eddy and Benjamin Edmiston, Houston, Texas Sirius Art Center, 2 - person exhibition with Max Warsh curated by Jessamyn Fiore, Cobh, Ireland Spring Break Art Show curated by Kelly Schroer, NY, NY, Kristen Lorello gallery, Geometric Cabinet, NY, NY EddysRoom, Solo Show, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Silver Projects, Double Vision, Brooklyn, NY BRIC Art Center, Handmade Abstract, Brooklyn, NY, Zolla / Lieberman gallery, Hot Slice, Chicago, IL Danziger Gallery, Wonderful Lies, NY, NY Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, Black and White, NY, NY, Danziger Gallery, Project Room, NY, NY Material Art Fair with LVL3, Mexico City 2014 Paris Photo with Laurence Miller Gallery Westport Arts Center, curated by Julia Mechtler and Elizabeth Koehn, Westport, CT Expo Chicago with Laurence Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL New Capital, Real Time, Future, Experience, Chicago, IL Spring Break Art show, NY, NY La Montagne Gallery, Black and White, Boston, MA

This unprecedented exhibition gives due recognition to the women artists and activists of color who were actively contributing to the second wave of feminism — a chapter of art history that has too often excluded people of color.

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

Nothing about this is at all surprising from the candidate who put away the dog whistle years ago, bringing out into the open the contempt he has for women, people of color, Muslims, gays, decorum, facts, and science.

«We have taken significant steps in making our profession more open to women, to persons of color, and to those who come from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds,» it says.

I count 15 women (23 %) and just 2 people of color (3 % — although it is difficult to tell who might consider themselves a person of color just from a photograph).

Transgender people of color living in poverty are impacted by these trends in specific ways; over 50 % of Black transgender women can expect to be arrested at some point in their lives, and because the world is so gendered and hostile to people who fall outside gender norms, they face numerous barriers to returning to a stable life.

Women, people of color, gender non-conforming people, people who identify as LGBTQIA +, and people who are bilingual are encouraged to apply.

«It's only fitting that the presumptive nominee is a bombastic bigot who has called immigrants «rapists,» said he would punish women for having an abortion, repeatedly insults women, and has incited violence against people of color at his rallies.

These attacks hurt marginalized communities domestically and abroad — people of color, those who live in rural areas, those struggling to make ends meet in the U.S. and women and girls living in poverty in developing countries — the most.