Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law

Despite the election results and our awareness of the challenges ahead, all of us at the Center are staying grounded in our mission. Whatever comes next, we will fight to defend and promote racial and gender justice. There has never been a more urgent time to be steadfast and strong in pursuing equitable public systems, from courtrooms to hospitals to classrooms.  The support and generosity of our community have always fueled our work. We hope to continue to advance gender and racial equity in 2025 for girls and women by: 💠 Conducting groundbreaking research 💠 Issuing policy and law solutions 💠 Training practitioners to combat bias 💠 Inspiring future lawyers to create more just public systems   To do this work, we need your help. We are an independently funded organization that relies entirely on donations and grants to build our vision of a world where all girls, gender-expansive youth, and women have an equal opportunity to thrive. Please consider donating to the Center today to help our fight in the years ahead: https://lnkd.in/eUWPM7Zn 

🎉Ring in the new year with us at our Capitol Campus Feminist Mixer! On January 23, 2025, from 4:30-6:00 PM ET, gather with Georgetown University faculty and graduate students interested in feminist collaborations, conversations, and community. The event is co-hosted by the Gender+ Justice Initiative, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity. The mixer will provide an opportunity to forge new connections and discover the rich diversity of our university community. The event is open to Georgetown faculty and graduate students only. RSVP today: https://lnkd.in/enkTqJJ7 

🆕The Center on Gender Justice and Opportunity is now on Blue Sky! We’re excited to connect with other leaders and organizations dedicated to advancing gender and racial equity in this new digital space. Find us at: @gtowngenderjust (https://lnkd.in/eXJnYWyA) We hope to see you there!

This year, the Center advanced gender justice through: ⭐Specialized trainings to combat bias for hundreds of judges, attorneys, students, and advocates ⭐The launch of JYSI, a collaborative initiative that aims to keep survivors of gender-based violence safe and out of the justice system with the National Black Women's Justice Institute ⭐Insightful and thought-provoking events with the Georgetown Law community But our work isn't finished. 2025 will demand even more as we face new challenges ahead. Help us continue our important work championing gender and racial justice for girls, gender-expansive youth, and women with an end-of-year gift to the Center. Your donation fuels groundbreaking research, policy solutions, and trainings that contribute to meaningful change. Donate now and be part of the movement: https://lnkd.in/eUWPM7Zn 

We’re still buzzing from attending the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance’s 2024 Annual Convening earlier this month. 🌠 Our Executive Director, Rebecca Epstein, spoke on the health and safety of girls alongside Dr. Monique Couvson, Ed.D., Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, and Sherida V. Morrison. We’re grateful for the opportunity to represent the Center’s critical work and engage with other leaders who are creating a safer world for all girls and gender-expansive youth.

Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, a commemoration of the 14 women killed and 14 women injured at Polytechnique Montréal in 1989, targeted because they were women. https://lnkd.in/eSU7e3fu The urgent need to combat and eliminate gender-based violence is ever more critical. At the Center, we’re committed to advancing gender and racial justice for girls, gender-expansive youth, and women everywhere. To learn about the ways we champion gender and racial equity, we invite you to visit our website and read our 2024 Highlights Report: https://lnkd.in/eMTrHcJW

This week, our Executive Director, Rebecca Epstein, participated in a panel with Monique Couvson, Ed.D., Inger Burnett-Zeigler, and Sherida V. Morrison on the health and safety of girls at the Obama Foundation's Girls Opportunity Alliance’s 2024 Annual Convening in Chicago. Thank you to the GOA for the amazing conversations and opportunity! Tina Tchen Brianna Lawrence

In the years that lie ahead, our work will be all the more critical—but we can’t do it alone. On this #GivingTuesday, we hope you’ll consider donating to the Center and join us in building on our progress. Here are some notable milestones we achieved in 2024: 🌟We led 12 adultification bias trainings for more than 250 judges, attorneys, and students, and advocates. 🌟In partnership with the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, we launched the Justice for Youth Survivor’s Initiative (JYSI), which will work to keep survivors of gender-based violence safe and out of the legal system. 🌟We hosted events for the Georgetown community that featured experts, filmmakers, journalists, government officials, and survivors of gender-based violence.  🌟Our research was consistently cited across sectors and in the media, from peer-reviewed journals to WebMD’s Health and Parenting Guide. These are just some of our accomplishments this year. With your support, we can continue to champion gender and racial equity for girls, gender-expansive young people, and women for years to come. 🔹Donate to the Center today and help fuel our work and our fight in 2025 and beyond: https://lnkd.in/eUWPM7Zn 🔹Learn more about our impact in our 2024 Highlights Report: https://lnkd.in/eMTrHcJW #GivingTuesday #GiveToWomenAndGirls

In this season of gratitude, we’re reflecting on our deep appreciation of our community for its strength, support, and belief in our mission. Without the generosity of our funders and supporters, we wouldn’t be able to build towards our vision of a more just world for girls, gender-expansive youth, and women everywhere. Now, with gender and racial justice more gravely at risk than ever, our work is even more critical. We remain steadfast in our commitment to taking bold action to advance racial and gender justice; but we rely entirely on support from donors and foundations. A donation to the Center will support the development of groundbreaking research, law and policy solutions, anti-bias trainings, and more. We hope you’ll join us in the fight to eliminate racial and gender disparities across public systems by making a donation to the Center today: https://lnkd.in/eUWPM7Zn And to everyone in our community of partners and supporters: thank you for standing with us in our mission.  💙

🧘🏽♀️Somatic interventions like trauma-informed yoga are highly effective for girls in the justice system to address trauma and build adaptive strategies to combat stress. In “Gender & Trauma Report Somatic Interventions for Girls in Juvenile Justice: Implications for Policy and Practice,” we showcase the benefits of incorporating trauma-informed yoga for girls and gender-expansive youth in the juvenile justice system. To help scale this approach to facilities nationwide, some of our report’s recommendations for policy and practice include investing in sustainable programming, educating staff on the benefits of somatic interventions, and more. Read the report to learn more about the positive impacts of somatic interventions and our policy recommendations: https://lnkd.in/gyCjWeeg Thalia González