V-Day
Template:TOCnestleft V-Day began on Valentines Day, 1998, Eve Ensler, "with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day. Set up as a 501(c)(3) and originally staffed by volunteers, the organization's seed money came from a star-studded, sold out benefit performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a show that raised $250,000 in a single evening."[1]
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler's experience performing The Vagina Monologues "inspired her to create V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls."[2]
Trip to Cuba
Eve Ensler performed The Vagina Monologues in Havana, where she met Mariela Castro, "who announced the participation and support from Cuba to the global campaign One Billion Rising against violence against women and girls". One Billion Rising is a project of V-Day.[3]
City of Joy
Currently run by Christine Schuler Deschryver, the City of Joy is a V-Day project, claiming to be "a place to live in community so that they (female victims of violence) could heal" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The group's "Vagina Warrior Program" seeks to turn women into community organizers. The City of Joy trains women on "rights awareness, judiciary and community activism." They also learn about "specialized psychosocial care to survivors" and "Comprehensive sexuality education" among other more innocuous activities such as "soap-making."[4]
Board
- Carole Black
- Jennifer Buffett
- Kimberle Crenshaw
- Rosario Dawson
- Eve Ensler
- Jane Fonda
- Katherine McFate
- Pat Mitchell
- Thandie Newton
- Cari Ross
- Lisa Schejola Akin
- Regina Scully
- Susan Celia Swan
Advisors
Staff
- Eve Ensler, Founder & Artistic Director
- Colleen Carroll, Communications & Social Media Associate Director
- Carl Cheng, Online & Creative Services Manager
- Shael Norris, College & Community Campaigns Director
- Christine Schuler Deschryver, V-Day Congo Director & Director of City of Joy
- Susan Celia Swan, Executive Director
- Kristina Shea, Finance Manager
- Monique Wilson, One Billion Rising Director
References
- ↑ http://www.vday.org/about/why-vday-started.html, Why V-Day Started, accessed June 9 2016
- ↑ http://www.vday.org/about/more-about/eveensler.html, Eve Ensler page at V-Day Website, accessed June 9 2016
- ↑ http://www.granma.cu/16-festival-de-teatro-de-la-habana/2015-10-31/en-cuba-eve-ensler-autora-de-los-monologos-de-la-vagina, In Cuba, Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, accessed June 9 2016
- ↑ http://drc.vday.org/about-city-of-joy/origins-city-of-joy/, Origins of the City of Joy, accessed June 9 2016