RACIAL EQUITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

YWCA’s mission pledges to eliminate racism, and empower women, promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Dismantling structural racism requires long-term commitment and rigorous focus, and we have been on this journey in Miami for decades.  As we turn 100 years, we are even more driven to get up and do the work until injustice is rooted out, until institutions are transformed, until the world sees women, girls and people of color the way we do: Equal. Powerful. Unstoppable.

At YWCA South Florida, we address the deepest discrimination happening at the intersection of race and gender. This discrimination shows up every day in the lived experience of women, and people of color, through economic disparities, educational inequities, and limited access to health care

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