Women’s History Month: It’s All Year Round for Chicago Foundation for Women
Chicago Foundation for Women treats every month like Women’s History Month by championing women’s health, economic security and freedom from gender-based violence at every turn.
Since 2019, JT has been proud to support Chicago Foundation for Women’s earned media efforts—most recently to bring attention to COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on women, particularly women of color, as well as providing commentary as Chicago grapples with a long overdue reckoning around the systemic racial disparities reverberating from the criminal legal system.
This work helped amplify the foundation’s solutions-oriented vision for recovery—focusing on top priority action items that will drive resiliency—coming out of this especially demanding time on the city’s women and girls.
A few standout examples include:
In a recent “Black Voices” Community Conversation on WTTW-TV, CFW President and CEO Felicia Davis joined Chicago Tonight co-host Brandis Friedman; Michelle Duster, author, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells; LaSaia Wade, founder and executive director of Brave Space Alliance; and Dorri McWhorter, CEO of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, to discuss the accomplishments and adversities Black women continue to overcome.
CFW President and CEO Felicia Davis; Maria Doughty, president and CEO of The Chicago Network; Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed; and Annie Warshaw, CEO and co-founder of Mission Propelle, co-authored an op-ed in Crain’s Chicago Business advocating for the steps we should all take to ensure women emerge stronger from this unprecedented Shecession, aptly dubbed so due to its disproportionate impact on working women.
When horrifying bodycam footage was released of CPD’s mistreatment of two Chicago women, Martina Standley and Anjanette Young, Felicia took a stand, calling for the dismissal of “any police officer or other city employee who fails to show a modicum of humanity for the women they serve” in an op-ed in Chicago Sun-Times.
Just this week, Felicia Zoomed into the WBBM-AM radio studio for an “At Issue” with Craig Dellimore on the challenges Chicago women are battling today and what needs to change to build a safer, more gender-equitable city where women of all backgrounds can thrive.
Through our work at JT and media engagements like these, we have the privilege of spotlighting CFW and its dedication to rising up to meet the critical needs of hurting communities, particularly during this period of intense pain and crises.
CFW’s commitment to centering equality, empowerment, diversity, collaboration and integrity in all that they do is unwavering, even during uncertain times. Thank you, CFW, for leading by example.
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