We believe social justice work is about coalition building, organizing across differences, multi-issue agendas, and social and political transformation. We have abandoned old, single-issue social justice agendas organized around a single identity in favor of a model that recognizes that all oppression is linked and that we cannot think about dismantling one system of oppression without dismantling others.

We also believe social justice work is about integration and transformation. By integration, we mean not just listening to the experiences of marginalized communities and people, but integrating those experiences and allowing them to inform the work or change how we understand ourselves in relationship to others.

We developed the Intersectional Approach Model to Social Justice to encourage organizations, activists, and community leaders to link multiple forms of oppression; develop strategies and agendas that are inclusive; and to incorporate the lives of marginalized groups in discussions for social change.

Further, the model examines markers of difference such as race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in relationship to structures and institutions in society that inform individuals' lived experiences, restrict individual and community rights, and maintain privilege for certain groups while limiting access for others.

We provide training and technical assistance to organizations and community groups on the Intersectional Approach Model, how to build a multi-issue organization/movement; and incorporating issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other markers of difference in organizing agendas.