I’m Aimee Allison, founder of She the People. Ask me anything!
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I’m the founder of She the People, a national network that elevates the political power and voices of women of color. I founded She the People to uphold four fundamental values: to love our own and others, to seek justice for all, to ensure that everyone beI’m Aimee Allison, founder of She the People. Ask me anything!
I’m the founder of She the People, a national network that elevates the political power and voices of women of color. I founded She the People to uphold four fundamental values: to love our own and others, to seek justice for all, to ensure that everyone belongs, and, finally, to make sure that our American democracy lives up to its greatest promise. In September 2018, She the People made history by catalyzing a national focus on women of color with our inaugural summit in San Francisco. We featured the nation’s most exciting progressive women of color leaders on ballots across the nation, all championing social and economic justice movements, and who continue to drive winning political strategy. In April 2019, we made history again when we convened the first-ever women of color centered Presidential Forum in Houston. Here, eight of the leading Democratic presidential candidates made their cases to the nation for why they deserve the support of women of color. The forum was a smashing success, with nearly two thousand women of color attendees, over a million online viewers, wide press coverage, and #SheThePeople2020 trending number one nationally on Twitter. Since the forum, She the People has successfully deployed our organizing strategy convening in Virginia and Florida where we hosted a sold-out debate watch party with our partners at New Florida Majority to great acclaim. Through our continued work, we introduced key issues like black maternal health, missing and murdered indigenous women, and white supremacist violence into the national conversation. We created space for other leaders, relentlessly driving home the narrative that ours is the most powerful, strategic voting bloc. Women of color are now to be addressed, counted, reckoned with, and courted for votes. We are visible nationally in a way we have never been before. Forty two years ago, the term “women of color” was born at the National Women’s Convention. But really our lineage runs back to Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Ella Baker. “She the People” resounded in the words of Grace Lee Boggs, and Yuri Kochiyama, and Zitkála-Šá, and Queen Liliuokalani. She the People found voice with Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, and organizer Luisa Moreno. It was exemplified with the great Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and with my hero Shirley Chisholm who began her historic run for Congress 51 years ago. These are our godmothers. We walk in their footsteps. Give today and help She the People elevate women of color who are leading an inclusive, progressive coalition that's transforming our democracy. Read more