The Intersectional Approach Model to Social Justice Work was developed by the National Women's Alliance to examine issues of social justice and equality multi-causally and intersectionally. It attempts to explain and generate strategies that are inclusive and get to the root causes of the problem/issue. The model challenges single-agenda organizing models by encouraging organizations, advocates, and activists to look broadly at the root causes of oppression and discrimination.

Structural Intersectionality
Structural Intersectionality encompasses the political, economic, representational and institutional forms of oppression and domination. It refers to the creation and operation of systems and structures in society that maintain privilege for some groups while restricting the rights and privileges of others.

Structural Intersectionality highlights the connectedness of systems and structures in society and helps us to understand how each system affects or impacts others. Any particular disadvantage or disability is sometimes compounded by another disadvantage reflecting the dynamics of a separate system or structure of subordination.

Political Intersectionality
Political Intersectionality refers to the structures and systems of laws and policies that govern individuals and groups in societies. It focuses on the impact of laws, the criminal justice system, public policies, and the government in shaping the individual's or group's sense of fairness, equality, and justice in society.

Political Intersectionality highlights how laws and public policies are shaped and informed by dominant cultural perspectives of race, class, gender, ethnicity, age, ability or sexual orientation.

Institutional Intersectionality
Institutional Intersectionality focuses on the impact of institutions on the individual and the group. It highlights how institutions present in society restrict, limit, or deny access to resources by marginalized groups or individuals. Institutional oppression and discrimination is harmful because it is virtually invisible or hidden in society. It is essentially "the rules of the game." It may maintain systems of privilege and oppression.

Economic Intersectionality
Economic Intersectionality pays attention to the distribution of wealth and resources in societies; the individual's or group's access to information; and the impact of social class on an individual's access to resources.

Economic Intersectionality explores how poverty or class can impact an individual's access to resources, information, employment opportunities, and potential for advancement.

Representational Intersectionality
Representational Intersectionality refers to the representation of individuals and groups in dominant culture and society through media, texts, language, and images. It pays close attention to how both the dominant and marginalized groups are represented in society.

Representational Intersectionality highlights the way race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnic images in society come together to create unique and specific narratives that shape and inform the policies, laws, and institutions in society.