💫Introducing our Social Media Director: Emily Oh!📱👩‍💻 📢 From amplifying our partners’ voices to crafting engaging content, she ensures WWAD’s mission shines across every post. 🎨✨She hones in on her graphic design and marketing skills to make WWAD’s work accessible to all!

👋🤩 Say hello to our amazing Projects Director: Raksha! 🤝 Collaborating across teams to amplify outreach, she drives WWAD’s mission forward by brainstorming, launching, and managing impactful campaigns beyond legislation. 📣✨👏 Let’s give her a round of applause for her visionary leadership!

✨ Meet our incredible California Policy Managers: Ella, Elizabeth, Kate, Sriya, and Supriya! 📋👩‍💼Working under the guidance of our CA Policy Directors, they’re the driving force behind turning ideas into action. 💡💬 Their hard work and dedication help shape impactful policies that make a difference for all Californians! ☀️🌴

Meet our incredible California State Policy Directors: Martín and Allison! 🌴☀️ 📜💫Leading the charge on WWAD’s California policy priorities, they work closely with legislative staff to champion economic justice. 🤝 They oversee our CA Policy Managers, build key legislative relationships, and spearhead efforts to drive impactful change across the state. 💡✨

📣Introducing our NY Policy Director: Thai! 🗽🍎 ✨Thai is driven by a passion to expand access to basic needs, ensuring everyone in his community has the resources they deserve. We look forward to seeing all the amazing changes he’ll make for New York! 💙🧡

Hey y’all 🤠! 📣 Introducing our wonderful TX State Policy Directors: Isadora and Annika 📜🙌🧡! Their dedication to advocating for expansion of basic needs in their communities is truly inspiring💫.

Introducing Sophie, our Chief of Staff (COS) at WWAD 📢👩‍💼📆! Sophie is the backbone of our team, ensuring smooth internal operations and effective communication amongst our team. Her organization and thoughtful check-ins keep everyone engaged and excited to be a part of WWAD! 💙💫

🌟Our Policy Platform is Here! Swipe to read more about our five policy areas: Food Security, Housing, Health Equity and Healthcare, Education and Workforce, and Public Assistance Expansion and Accessibility. To learn more about WWAD’s policy platform, click the link in our bio! 🔗

It’s WWAD’s first birthday! This past year has been an amazing one with each and everyone one of your support, and most importantly, an incredible team that makes it all possible. Swipe to read a bit about our accomplishments over the past year! Moving forward, we’re more than ever committed to a future that is anti-racist, economically abundant, and meets every person’s basic needs. Trump’s presidency poses dangerous threats to crucial safety net programs, immigrants’ wellbeing, and the ability for young people to be heard. We recognize this new shift towards a resistance-based organizing climate, and we invite everyone to continue to fight alongside us for economic justice for all. Stay tuned for more updates about WWAD’s plans for the upcoming years.

🌟 This past week, WWAD joined @periodsupplies and @diapernetwork at their annual U.S. Conference on Poverty and Basic Needs in Chicago, IL. This conference gathers organizations working across the nation that work on solving period product and diaper insecurity in their communities. 🎤 We presented a workshop, “Period Equity as an Intergenerational Movement” with an audience of 60+ in person and online to learn more about how to engage young advocates in the menstrual equity movement. We even featured stories of our very own youth advocates, Annika and Raksha, who began their advocacy journeys at the local level through direct service. 💙 Thank you so much to our partners @periodsupplies and @diapernetwork for giving us the platform to share youth perspectives and involvement in such pressing issues facing low-income families today. We’re excited for our continued partnership in the upcoming year to advocate for more basic needs policies across the nation! #basicneeds #economicjustice #youthempowerment #youthadvocate