NWA Public Education Program (PEP)

The National Women's Alliance's Public Education Program focuses on providing information to the public, local grassroots and community-based organizations on issues directly impacting women and girls of color. Through public education campaigns, Brown Sheets, watch dog initiatives, and community roundtables, PEP works to ensure that the needs and concerns of women and girls of color are being addressed in social justice movements, in communities, and at the local, state, and national levels.

The project focuses on three main issue areas:
• Racial and Economic Justice

• Reproductive Health and Sexual Well-being

• Violence against Women

The goal of PEP is to build coalitions across race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and other markers of difference and arm community activists and leaders with useful information, resources and tools that they can use in their own work.

Our philosophy is to work directly with social justice activists, community leaders, and organizations to ensure that our campaigns and education initiatives are relevant, timely, and useful. We realize that communities are diverse and that we cannot prescribe a uniform method for addressing them all; but by using a grassroots, collaborative approach we can work with communities and with activists to leverage resources and build coalitions across difference.