In Ohio, the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland learned that abstinence-only education was hurting their ability to prevent teens from becoming infected with HIV and AIDS. They adopted a program of comprehensive sexuality education to fight the costs of ignorance. Learn more and view video

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Ai-Jen Poo is Lead Organizer and Founder, Domestic Workers United. She works to build the power of the New York domestic workforce... Learn more and view video

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Ashley Nicole Tomlinson. After participating in Odyssey Youth Center's legislative lobby day trip on comprehensive sexuality education, Tomlinson became inspired to change her life and her community... Learn more and view video

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Brenda Dardar Robichaux is the Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the United Houma Nation Relief Fund. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated her tribe in Southeastern Louisiana, Robichaux mobilized to meet the immediate needs of the Houma Nation and established training in non-traditional jobs for women... Learn more and view video

CAAAV organizes across diverse, low-wage, and poor Asian communities in New York City, to expose and struggle against violence with the goal of building community capacity to exercise self-determination. Building coalitions enables CAAAV to contribute to a unified strategy for a broader, multi-racial and multi-issue movement for social change. Learn more and view video

Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. Learn more and view video

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Gina Womack, Director and Co-Founder of Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), is an impassioned community organizer dedicated to creating a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. Learn more and view video

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Kirbie Platero, a member and organizer at Young Women United, is a 19-year old activist, mother and artist working to secure reproductive justice for girls and women. She recently helped lead a successful campaign in New Mexico that brought young women of color to advocate before state officials for the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in public schools. Learn more and view video

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Lucy Félix is Lead Trainer & Community Organizer for Migrant Health Promotion's La Voz Latina Program. In South Texas, she promotes awareness about reproductive health and works with migrant women to advocate for the elimination of barriers to health care... Learn more and view video

Massachusetts Citizens for Children created the Enough Abuse Campaign to address child sexual abuse through a statewide education and training effort. Learn more and view video

2009 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Naina Khanna, Director of Policy and Community Organizing at Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), supports, educates and mobilizes women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS encouraging them to advocate for policy change that meets their unique and, often, unmet needs. Learn more and view video

SMART (Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS Research and Treatment) University welcomes all women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS who are interested in getting control of their lives; willing to listen and be heard; and interested in learning how to better their health in order to live longer and healthier lives. Learn more and view video

2007 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Vanessa Johnson is co-founder of the National Women and AIDS Collective (NWAC) a coalition of Ms. Foundation grantees representing groups run by and for HIV-positive women and aiming to change policy at the national level. Learn more and view video

2008 Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awardee Yunuen Rodriguez is an advocate for media justice, violence prevention and culture change that respects women and girls. She successfully led negotiations with a Chicago radio station to drop a sexually exploitative ad campaign and testified before the Federal Communications Commission... Learn more and view video