https://www.cravefoundation.org/home-2020 daily 0.75 2022-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595889889669-GKLB4YQJB506KC1RVWK2/LindaBlount Home - Linda Goler Blount Linda Goler Blount has dedicated her life’s work to advancing health equity for underserved communities. Currently the CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, she advocates for reproductive justice and the health and wellness of Black women and girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1594071295891-ZMSU3Y38R89NKKZ1B4NT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Our Grants We believe in the boundless ability of the individual to bring about transformative change and the importance of shining light into unheralded realms. The CRAVE Foundation for Women awards no-strings-attached grants to individuals working on some of the most pressing forms of gender-based violence and reproductive justice. We support those in our local and national communities that are helping bring about a world where pleasure is a universal right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595889802025-4YGEWWMYSRB500S9FIUF/AyaanALi.jpg Home - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a women’s rights activist, champion of free speech, and best-selling author. As the founder of the AHA Foundation, Hirsi Ali has been a powerful voice advocating against FGM, honor violence and forced marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595963039837-CRUX55X6FSNYTKHIROOA/Tina+Frundt Home - Tina Frundt Tina Frundt, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking, provides survivor-focused resources to victims of sexual exploitation through her organization: Courtney’s House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595890183270-CQ2UA0SEUQ6PXH4VTHX8/%C2%A9SophiaWallace_Portraits_Scale_Process_CLITERACY_04.jpg Home - Sophia Wallace Sophia Wallace is a mixed media artist who is transforming the way we talk about embodiment. Best known for her viral project CLITERACY, her artworks intervene in the weaponization of gender, as it is used to deny rights to girls, women and people with vulvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595968207671-W3Q0HWSRXXBHYGF1YRXL/Mariya+Taher Home - Mariya Taher Mariya Taher, an advocate against gender-based violence, is the co-founder of Sahiyo, a Massachusetts-based NGO to stop FGM in Asian communities around the world. https://www.cravefoundation.org/ayaan-hirsi-ali daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595374778355-F8PF40ENMAIYDXF05EE7/AyaanALi.jpg Ayaan Hirsi Ali - 2020 Recipient Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a women’s rights activist, champion of free speech, and best-selling author. As the founder to the AHA Foundation, Hirsi Ali has been a powerful voice advocating for freedom from FGM, honor violence and forced marriages for women. She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As a young child, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. As she grew up, she embraced Islam and strove to live as a devout Muslim. But she began to question aspects of her faith. One day, while listening to a sermon on the many way’s women should be obedient to their husbands, she couldn’t resist asking, “Must our husbands obey us too?” In 1992, Ayaan fled to the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage. There she was given asylum, and in time citizenship. She quickly learned Dutch and was able to study at the University of Leiden, earning her M.A. in political science. Working as a translator for Somali immigrants, she saw first-hand the inconsistencies between liberal, Western society and tribal, Muslim cultures. From 2003 to 2006, Ayaan served as an elected member of the Dutch Parliament. While in Parliament, she focused on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and on defending the rights of Muslim women. In 2004, Ayaan gained international attention following the murder of Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh had directed her short film Submission, a film about the oppression of women under Islam. The assassin, a radical Muslim, left a death threat for her pinned to Van Gogh’s chest. In 2006, Ayaan had to resign from parliament when the then Dutch minister for Immigration decided to revoke her citizenship, arguing that Ayaan had misled the authorities at the time of her asylum application. However, the Dutch courts confirmed that Ayaan was indeed a legitimate Dutch citizen, leading to the fall of the government. Disillusioned with the Netherlands, she subsequently moved to the United States. In 2007, Ayaan founded the AHA Foundation to protect and defend the rights of women in the US from harmful traditional practices. Today, the Foundation is the leading organization working to end honor violence that shames, hurts, or kills thousands of women and girls in the U.S. each year, and puts millions more at risk. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, she was a Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at The Harvard Kennedy School, and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was named one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2005, one of the Glamour Heroes of 2005 and Reader's Digest's European of the Year for 2005. She is the best-selling author of Infidel (2007) and Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (2015). In 2017, Hoover Press published her booklet The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It. Her next book Prey will be published by Harper Collins in 2020. https://www.cravefoundation.org/tina-frundt daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595962814621-KYAEBYI8ZWZW0M4A39XM/TinaFrundt2.jpg Tina Frundt - 2020 Recipient Tina Frundt Ms. Frundt has been actively raising awareness of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) since 2000. A high profile national advocate on the issue of domestic sex trafficking and a survivor of CSEC, Ms. Frundt is deeply committed to helping other children and youth, who are living through experiences similar to her own. She has been featured on numerous national shows and publications, including the OWN Network’s Our America with Lisa Ling: 3AM Girls, which featured an undercover look into sex trafficking in Washington, DC, the CNN Freedom Project, and in 2016 The Whitney Young Unsung Heroes award by the Urban Institute. In 2010, she became the first U.S. citizen to receive the Free the Slaves Freedom Awards-Frederick Douglas Award, which recognizes survivors of sex trafficking who use their life in freedom to help others. In 2016 she was appointed by President Obama to the First White House Survivor Advisory Board. Ms. Frundt trains law enforcement and other non-profit groups, and is also a member of the Washington, D.C., State of Maryland and Prince Georges County Anti-Trafficking Task Force, she was also appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Safe Harbor Working group. She has testified before the U.S. Congress about her own experiences and the need for greater protection and services for trafficked persons. She is the founder and executive director of Courtney’s House, which provides direct services for domestic sex trafficked males and females ages 11 – 24yrs in the Washington D.C. metro area. Since its inception, Courtney’s House and Ms. Frundt have helped over 2,000 survivors get out of their trafficking situation. https://www.cravefoundation.org/sophia-wallace daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595540828507-CBSQBXIYJ19BTNQVKDXL/%C2%A9SophiaWallace_Portraits_Scale_Process_CLITERACY_04.jpg Sophia Wallace - 2020 Recipients Sophia Wallace Sophia Wallace, a mixed media artist, is changing the way we think about female pleasure through her art. She holds a BA in Political Science from Smith College and an MA in Photography from New York University & The International Center of Photography. Best known for her viral project CLITERACY, Wallace is interested in the ways that people assigned female at birth are denied self-determination through the weaponization of their genitals. Through diverse materials and approaches, including large text, sculpture, installation and performance, Wallace’s art seeks to establish the clitoris in visual representation; a vital part of our understanding of the body. Her work is shown widely in the US and internationally including Spain, Austria, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Australia and the UK. She was recently featured in the documentary The Dilemma of Desire by Maria Finitzo, a film that initiates overdue conversations about the social negation of the right to sexual pleasure according to sex and gender. Wallace’s vital work challenges the visual tropes that venerate the phallus and perpetuate the myth that vagina, not the clitoris, is its homologue. Exhibitions of Wallace's art have been held at Kunsthalle Wien Museum, Samek Art Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Aperture Gallery, Taschen Gallery, Blueproject Foundation, and Newspace Center of Photography among others. Her works are in the permanent collections of Agnes Scott College, The Leslie-Lohman Museum and The Vescom Collection. Critical recognition of Wallace's work on gendered body knowledge includes The New York Times, The Atlantic, PBS, ARTE, The Guardian, Art in America, Teen Vogue, New Yorker, Time, VICE, and Huffington Post among others. Her TED talk, 'A Case For Cliteracy' has been viewed 596,891 times while her multi-collaboration with Huffington Post, ‘The Overdue, Under-told Story of the Clitoris’, received 3.5 million views and was translated in 3 languages. Wallace has been honored with the Griffin Museum’s Critic’s Pick Award, and PDN’s Curator Award. She was a 2012 recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship, and a 2019 "Artist On Our Radar" with Creative Capital. She was a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Project For Empty Space Feminist Incubator and an Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Center. Artist Statement My work aestheticizes an embodied possibility for othered subjects. I focus in particular on the ways that gender and sexuality are weaponized to maintain patriarchal dominance. To create my artworks, I draw from diverse media including text, sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, street art and performance. Over the last eight years, I have focused on a single project: to establish the clitoris in visual representation in its true and unknown form and as a symbol of power. While the phallic obelisk is seen from national monuments to somber burial sites, representation of the clitoral violates an unspoken code of silence – that the genitals of people assigned female at birth are of marginal, rather than universal, significance and are never appropriate for public discourse, let alone display. Each work I make is an attempt to place an unseen subject into art history, so that it may participate in our collective understanding of what it means to exist. https://www.cravefoundation.org/2020-grants daily 0.75 2023-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595377611170-9OH2CXBQGVVJR5V7E03E/AyaanALi.jpg 2020 Grants - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a women’s rights activist, champion of free speech, and best-selling author. As the founder of the AHA Foundation, Hirsi Ali has been a powerful voice advocating against FGM, honor violence and forced marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595540909152-NAWQLU1MRGPADULFMH4B/%C2%A9SophiaWallace_Portraits_Scale_Process_CLITERACY_04.jpg 2020 Grants - Sophia Wallace Sophia Wallace is a mixed media artist who is transforming the way we talk about embodiment. Best known for her viral project CLITERACY, her artworks intervene in the weaponization of gender, as it is used to deny rights to girls, women and people with vulvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595962978678-ANZD4RQJDYOJTDSYVIS9/Tina+Frundt 2020 Grants - Tina Frundt Tina Frundt, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking, provides survivor-focused resources to victims of sexual exploitation through her organization: Courtney’s House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595440137012-3W7NU8G9Y8HN5G20S8PR/IMG_3211+%281%29.jpg 2020 Grants - Linda Goler Blount Linda Goler Blount has dedicated her life’s work to advancing health equity for underserved communities. Currently the CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, she advocates for reproductive justice and the health and wellness of Black women and girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595893181653-853YFGDVLPDLAA4UMTK3/MariyaTaher.jpg 2020 Grants - Mariya Taher Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.cravefoundation.org/linda-blount daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595440055776-W2DOL63WR307JKPK7HCG/IMG_3211+%281%29.jpg Linda Blount - 2020 Recipient Linda Goler Blount Linda Goler Blount joined the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) as the president and chief executive officer in February 2014. As president and CEO, Linda oversees the strategic direction for BWHI and is responsible for moving the organization forward in its mission to achieve health equity, as well as reproductive justice for Black women. Before joining BWHI, Linda served as the vice president of programmatic impact for the United Way of Greater Atlanta, where she led the effort to eliminate inequalities in health, income, education and housing through place- and population‐based work. Prior to that position, Linda was the first‐ever national vice president of health disparities at the American Cancer Society. There, she was responsible for providing strategic vision and leadership to the Society and its 12 geographic divisions to reduce cancer incidence and mortality among underserved populations and to develop a nationwide health equity policy. With more than 25 years of experience in the public, for‐profit and nonprofit sectors, Linda has a distinguished career that includes successful tenures at The Coca‐Cola Company, leading strategic business initiatives, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as an expert scientist. She also has extensive international health expertise and has served as a consultant to government ministries in Germany, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. https://www.cravefoundation.org/mariya-taher daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1595893279605-I77O04GEMYK900FZ85NY/MariyaTaher.jpg Mariya Taher - 2020 Recipient Mariya Taher Named one of six experts to watch on female genital cutting (FGC) by NewsDeeply.com, Mariya Taher has worked in the gender violence field for over a decade in the areas of teaching, research, policy, program development, and direct service. She has worked at Saheli, Support and Friendship for South Asian Women & Families, W.O.M.A.N., Inc., Asian Women’s Shelter, San Francisco Dept on the Status of Women, San Francisco State University, and was a 2014 Women’s Policy Institute Fellow through the Women’s Foundation of California. She also graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in 2016, where she received the 2014 Graduate School of Arts & Social Sciences Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the 2016 Lesley University Graduate Student Leadership Award. She writes both fiction and nonfiction and has contributed articles and stories to NPR’s Code Switch, HuffPost, The Fair Observer, Brown Girl Magazine, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Express Tribune, The San Francisco Examiner, The Flexible Persona, Cecile’s Writers Magazine, and more. Currently, she serves on the inaugural steering committee for the US End FGM/C Network and is working with the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association on passing state legislation to criminalize FGC and create community education and outreach programs within the state on this issue. In 2015, she co-founded Sahiyo, an award-winning, transnational organization with the mission to empower Asian communities to end FGC. The Manhattan Young Democrats honored her as a 2017 Engendering Progress honoree and ABC news did a special feature on her, entitled: Underground: American Woman Underwent Female Genital Mutilation Comes Forward. In 2018, Mariya received the Human Rights Storytellers Award from the Muslim American Leadership Alliance. https://www.cravefoundation.org/about daily 0.75 2024-11-11 https://www.cravefoundation.org/home daily 1.0 2024-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/6a01b9ad-4782-4205-9924-fc2e14c1a21c/mariama.jpeg Home - Dr. Mariama Diallo Dr. Mariama Diallo is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College and Montclair State University, and the founder and Chair of the New York Coalition to End FGM/C. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of FGM, providing trauma-informed individual group therapy and working on policy changes on behalf of survivors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1695743442091-61JTSQX85PJPBAR45I8G/Djessou.jpg Home - Djessou Kouyate Djessou Kouyate is an advocate, public speaker, and organizer for women’s and children’s rights in the fight to end female genital mutilation. She is the executive director of The Inter-African Committee (USA) on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, as well as the Co-Founder of “Vacances Sans Excision” (Summer Without FGM), a summer camp for survivors. Currently, Djessou is working on a bill to amend FGM law in the state of Maryland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0365952b61981e53cb46f2/1594071295891-ZMSU3Y38R89NKKZ1B4NT/image-asset.jpeg Home - Our Grants We believe in the boundless ability of individuals to bring about transformative change and shine light into unheralded realms. The CRAVE Foundation for Women awards no-strings-attached grants to individuals working on some of the most pressing forms of gender-based violence and reproductive justice. In supporting those in our local and national communities, we hope to help bring about a world where pleasure is a universal right.