Moving from Member-based to Member-led: Futuro Fuerte

Languages: English, Spanish, Nepali, Tibetan
Room: 354

Since 2014, Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) worked with RoadMap to design and implement a capacity building program called Futuro Fuerte (A Strong Future). Futuro Fuerte strengthens leadership, professional development, and internal practices so that MUA can become an organization successfully led by its Latina immigrant women members. In the last six years, MUA has built the capacity of immigrant women members to take on paid staff positions and occupy key decision-making roles, including Juana Flores becoming MUA’s Executive Director in 2018. In this workshop MUA will share lessons learned through Futuro Fuerte and provide examples of meaningful ways that movement organizations can tackle internalized racism and structural barriers to change.