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On International Women's Day, Astraea's global reach was featured on Feminist Teacher, the blog of board member Ileana Jiménez, who is a leader in the field of social justice education.  The post was picked up by Gender Across Borders as part of their International Women’s Day coverage.  

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Astraea Program Officer, Dulce Reyes, was featured on WBAI’s Out FM radio hour.  Dulce discussed the anti-gay legislation in Uganda and highlighted the importance of exposing U.S. religious fundamentalist intrusion in Uganda and worldwide. Astraea and our grantee partners in over 40 countries including the U.S. are constantly working for human rights that are fully inclusive of all people and are based on equality and justice.


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Astraea's support for Uganda-led solutions for LGBTI human rights in Uganda was featured today in a front-page article in the New York Times titled "U.S. Evangelicals’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push." [More]

Executive Director Katherine Acey shines this month among other luminaries in a GO Magazine special feature.  The series, "Women at the Helm" highlights the "dedicated women steering many of the nation's finest LGBT organizations."  Also featured is Astraea board member and San Francisco LGBT Community Center Executive Director Rebecca Rolfe. [More]

Watch Astraea Executive Director Katherine Acey featured on IN THE LIFE's Summer of Stonewall Series.  "Two of our movement's longest serving executive directors - Katherine Acey of Astrea and Lambda Legal's Kevin Cathcart - discuss their lives as activists, the impact of Stonewall on their generation, and the passion that keeps them advancing the movement." [More]

Executive Director Katherine Acey provides insight and inspiration on the way forward for nonprofits and foundations in a timely episode of Laura Flander's GRITtv. Katherine joins The Nation contributing writer Eyal Press, Marjorie Fine of the Center for Community Change and Talia Schank of Community Voices Heard.
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I have been a fundraiser for nearly three decades, but I fancy myself an activist, organizer, political thinker, manager, leader of sorts - they all have become inseparable identities for me. There have been times when, called a fundraiser to my face, I've even cringed, felt a jab to the heart.  [More]

"We're more likely to be remembered by the presence of monuments than by the presence of our people." Rickke Mananzala, the executive director of FIERCE, shared those words from his colleague Glo Ross, the group's lead organizer, as the two sat with a reporter late one evening this week in their West 24th Street offices. [More]