Stoop Participants
AF3IRM is committed to militant movement-building from the United States and effects change through grassroots organizing, trans-ethnic alliance building education, advocacy and direct action.
Stoop Leader: Olivia Canlas
Participants: Helen Guzman, Gebar Abreha, Erica Lim, Seema Sabnani, Leilani Montes
Ana Silvia Fernandez
Immigrant, Dominican men and women sit to unpack their culture’s treatment of woman as a national symbol and matriarch while simultaneously silencing and subjugating them. This conversation will occur in Spanish.
Stoop Leader: Ana Silvia Fernandez
Participants: Iris Gonzalez, Geordany Gonzalez, Jorge Gonzalez, Diogenes Fernandez, Ruth Peña
The Arts Effect NYC
Stoop Leader: Charlotte Arnoux
Participants: Celia Babini, Maya Blake, Alexa Caban, Martine Fernandez, Sophie Hearn, Kendra Jain, Mira Maxwell
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU brings together accomplished scholars, community builders, and artists from New York City and beyond in interactive forums, reflection, and new research.
Stoop Leader: Minh-Ha T. Pham
Participants: Eva Hageman, Sharon Heijin Lee, Christina Moon, Shauna Sweeney
Barrier Free Living Survivors Speaker Bureau
Stoop leader: Theresa Mcintosh
Participants: Emar, Lakisha, Gail, Tayan, Pat
BlackGirl Summit
Women of color working in creative arts promoting continuous dialogue around gender identity, race politics, pop culture, art and revolution.
Stoop leader: Morgan Parker
Participants: Rio Cortez, DeLana R.A. Dameron, Jade Foster, Cereus Arts, Montana Ray, Jyll Hubbard-Salk
Black Women’s Blueprint
Stoop Leaders: Farah Tanis & Michelle Loga Odom
Participants: Naimah Johnson, Camilla McKenzie, Monique John & Fayne Brown
Stoop Leader: Ishita Srivastava
Participants: Dana Variano, Tierney Gleason, Fivel Rothberg, Nadia Rasul
Stoop Leader: Dana Ben-Ari
Participants: Ayelet Kaznelson, Kerrigan Kessler, Alexandra Ben-Abba, Erika Sasson
Brooklyn Historical Society: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations examines the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families, cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity, and identity.
Stoop Leader: Nayantara Sen
Participants: Leina Bocar, Emily Pinkowitz, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, April Reynosa, Emily Potter-Ndiaye, Jeanmarie Theobalds
Brooklyn Movement Center
Brooklyn Movement Center is bringing together organizations and residents to come up with community-wide solutions to tackle street harassment and gender violence in Stuyvesant Heights.
Stoop Leader: Laurel Girvan
Participants: Anthonine Pierre, Veralyn Williams, Amaka Okechukwu, zakia henderson-brown, Kristen Maye, Shaunee Morgan, Na’ilah Amaru, Tiffany Washington
Brownstone Brooklyn Men on a Stoop
Stoop Leader: Lawson Shadburn
Participants: Mike Gross, Stuart Garber, Bruce Markow, Steven Flax
CAIR New York (The Council on American Islamic Relations of New York)
Stoop Leader: Sahar Al Sahlani
Participants: Sahar Al Sahlani
Chinese Staff and Workers Association (Ain’t I A Woman)
Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association (member of the Ain’t I a Woman!? Campaign) is in response to the multiple barriers of race, gender, age, and immigration status that often compound exploitation. We emphasize developing leadership and bridging the divides among working people in NYC’s Chinatowns and beyond.
Stoop Leader: –
Participants: Sarah Ahn, Wendy Cheung, Jei Fong, Josephine Lee, and Mika Nagasaki
Chloë Bass is a Brooklyn based artist and public practitioner who creates conceptual works dealing with the everyday. Learn more about her at chloebass.com.
Stoop Leader: Chloë Bass
Participants: Erica Mapp, Ivy Castellanos, Laura Rocha Nakazawa, Lauren Silbert, Krystal Banzon
The Church of New Beginnings
The Church of New Beginnings is a non-denominational house of worship dedicated to the ministry of Jesus Christ. New Beginnings’ ministry emphasizes a personal relationship with The Divine, in communion with commitments to justice and community longevity.
Stoop Leader: Emerald Carter
Participants: Safiya Bandele, Rev. Elizabeth Butler, Marye Dean Esq., Cheryl Davis, Olaronke Akinmowo
City Harvest’s work rescuing food for hungry New Yorkers is complemented by programs that address longer-term issues that surround hunger in New York City.
Stoop Leader: Katherine Kim
Participants: Minerva Delgado, Alane Celeste-Villalvir, Dr. Melony Samuels
Center for Family Life Cooperative Business Incubation Program
Stoop Leader: Emma Yorra
Participants: Angelina Cazares, Irma Casco, Monica Valerio
College and Community Fellowship: Theater for Social Change
Theater for Social Change performs original material based on ensemble members’ life stories and experiences with the criminal justice system and reentry.
Stoop Leader: Elizabeth Mirarchi
Participants: Teronia Campbell, Selina Fulford, Katherine Jennings, Alesa Simmons
Dominican Women’s Development Center
Non profit organization who identified the need for Latinas to seek solutions to systemic problems affecting their families and community, such as sexism and discrimination, high housing costs, low-achieving schools, high dropout rates, limited access to health care services, attacks on reproductive rights, high teenage pregnancy, and high poverty rates.
Stoop Leader: Katherine Diaz
Participants: Stephanie Diaz, Darlene Checo, Yakaira Paula, Melanie Correa, Mirna Hago, Mariluz Calderon
Dreamers
The Dreamers, Undocumented youth leaders fighting to change our country’s broken immigration system.
Stoop Leader: Lucia Allain
Participants: Rocio, Sarai and Katherine
Elixher Magazine
ELIXHER is an award-winning online magazine. It is your go-to resource for all things empowering, thought-provoking, and pertinent to the Black female queer community and experience. You’ll find news, uplifting profiles, local events, political commentary, personal reflections, and more.
Stoop Leader: Kimberley McLeod, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ELIXHER
Participants: Charla Harlow, The Harlow Project; Mikayla Brown, ELIXHER; Stephanie Friot, Diaspora Community Services
Elizabeth Sackler “A World Behind Bars”
Description coming soon.
Stoop Leader: Elizabeth Sackler
Participants: Beth Hribar, Rachel Louise Snyder, JoAnne Tucker
Families For Freedom (FFF)
FFF is a human rights organization and a defense network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation.
Stoop Leader: Cindy Martinez
Participants: Frances Davila, Evelia Ilaraz, Kathleen McArdle, Cindy Martinez
Description coming soon.
Stoop Leader: Syreeta McFadden
Participants: Mara Jebsen, Casey Rocheteau, Soraya Membreno, Erin Gleason, Sarah VanWettering
FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City.
Stoop Leader: Krystal Portalatin
Participants: Jah’dae Ross, Nico Fonseca, Karen Hall, Junior Melendez
GenderFuture
Stoop Leader: Sara Angevine
Participants: Lisa Chauveron, Dina Miller, Nichole Shippen, Yelena Kalinsky, Leah Rae Zimmerman, Nichole Hallberg
A new feminist arts magazine published by Capricious.
Stoop Leader: Anne Sherwood Pundyk, Co-Editor
Participants: Anika Sabin, Capricious; Johanna Constantine, Future Feminist; Bryn McKay, Artist, Writer, Healer
Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational grassroots organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women.
Stoop Leader: Nefertiti Martin
Participants: Natasha Adams, Deesha Narichania, Nathania Lewis, Joanne Smith
Girls Write Now provides guidance and support to aspiring teen writers from NYC’s public high schools by placing them in mentoring relationships with professional women writers.
Stoop Leader: Rebecca Haverson
Participants: Sade Swift, Amanda Day McCullough, Samantha Carlin, Natalia Vargas-Caba
Groundswell: Voices Her’d Visionaries
Groundswell: Voices Her’d Visionaries is a special program for young women who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to Groundswell and a potential for leadership.
Stoop Leader: Daonne Huff
Participants: Safiyyah Wilkerson, Ariyana Judge, Kaianna Griffith, Alejea Ernest
Hand in Hand: the Domestic Employers Association and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Stoop Leader: Sue Lob
Participants: Betsey McGee, Donna Schneiderman, Abby Drach, Gayle Kirshenbaum, Chaumtoli Huq
Hollaback is a movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. We work together to better understand street harassment, to ignite public conversations, and to develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.
Stoop Leader: Emily May
Participants: Debjani Roy, Jae Cameron, Stacy Bullard, David Beasley
Immigrant Movement International
Immigrant
Movement International is a community educational space in Corona,
Queens that explores artivist practices and envisions a different legal
reality for human migration.
Stoop Leader: Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz, Public Programs Fellow Queens Museum
Participants: Marisa Campiz, Rosi Anzurez, Daisy Chabla, Monica Flores, Joanna Guillen
As a curator, Jasmine Wahi’s mission is to utilize the power of contemporary art to foster education, understanding, and engagement about both art and social issues, injustices, and strengths.
Stoop Leader: Jasmine Wahi
Participants: Jaishri Abichandani, Carrie Mae Rose, Swati Khurana, Alexis Callender
Jogakbo (Peace Making Dialogue Group between North and South Korean Women)
Stoop Leader: Hyunkyung Chung
Participants: Mikang Yang, Yunseong Kim, Sister Josepha
Stoop Leader: Shine Shin
Participants: Jeeyun Hong, Hyemee Back, Yujung Kwon, Jonghaeng Kangyee
Stoop Leader: Jinkang Park
Participants: Hyojeong Nam, Misun Jin, Hayelin choi, John Kim
Stoop Leader: Woobeen Lee
Participants: Yeon Ryu, Sojung Lee, Seoyeon Je, Yena Kim
Kate Dries’ group
Stoop Leader: Kate Dries, Editorial Assistant, Jezebel.com
Participants: Carolanne Fried, Maya Bradford, Lauren Ellsworth, Alexander Ruff, Hayley Karl
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Stoop Leader: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Participants: Zanib Ahmad, Brittany Harrington, Dalila Mendez, and Diana Sanchez
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Stoop Leader: Michelle Billies, Joanna Alvarez
Participants: Kadri Bey, Shante Campbell, Asad Dandia, Dawn Medina, Adriana Mendoza, Latoya Nanga, Adrianna Quacinella, Monica Vega
The Laundromat Project amplifies the creativity that already exists within communities by using arts and culture to build community networks, solve problems, and enhance our sense of ownership in the places where we live, work, and grow.
Stoop Leader: Maya Valladares
Participants: Kristin Scarola, Reya Sehgal, Anastasia Taketomo, Colette Perold, Alessandra De Almeida
The Lower Eastside Girls Club was founded in 1996 to address the historic lack of services available to girls and young women on the Lower East Side.
Stoop Leader: Samantha Waite
Participants: Jenny Dembrow, Jennifer Sugg, Christine Sanchez, Nova Bajamonti, Yangzom Dolma, Guissaury Castillo
Man Up Campaign: Stop Violence Against Women
We believe in the power of peer-to-peer learning, and the value of experienced practitioners and educators working with youth to change the
face of violence against women.
Stoop Leader: Jimmie Briggs
Participants: Fred Sullivan, Alphonzo Terrell, Johnathan Escoffery, Damion Mandela Wongsang
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
Stoop Leader: Kim Russell
Participants: Wendy Szymanski, Dara Sicherman, Yvette Heyliger, Marie Delus, John Philip, Jenny Lando
National Center for Creative Aging
Stoop Leader: Susan Perlstein, Founder
National Mobilization Against SweatShops
Description coming soon.
Stoop Leader: Tosh Anderson
Participants: Yolanda Donato, Louise Velez, Carmen Andrade, Sonia Rivera, Lili Cisneros, Sophie Debenedetto
New Alternatives
New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth aims to increase the self-sufficiency of homeless LGBT youth to enable them to “go beyond” the shelter system.
Stoop Leader: Rachel Priebe
The New Negress Film Society is a core collective of black woman filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for exhibition, support, and consciousness-raising.
Stoop Leader: Jatovia Gary, Co-Founder
Participants: Nevline Nnaji, Laurie Thomas
The New York Asian Women’s Center helps women and their children overcome domestic violence and other forms of abuse by empowering them to govern their own lives.
Stoop Leader: Vineeta Kapahi, Volunteer Coordinator
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
Stoop Leader: Leah Barrett
Participants: Shaina Harrison, Ashleigh Harrison, Shativea Hamilton, Ruby-Beth Buitekant
Open University, Brooklyn
Stoop Leader: Mary Taylor, Melissa Garcia, Dominique Hernandez, Razeen Zaman
Participants: Mary Taylor, Francisca Benitez, Razeen Zaman, Dominique Hernandez, Melissa Garcia
Park Place: Residents
Long-term residents of Prospect Heights.
Stoop Leader: Mary Dale Roth
Participants: Phyllis Brody, Meg Starr or Matt Myer, Den Gordon, Rosemary Palms, Patricia Glynn, Rhoda Westerman-Hill
The Peculiar Kind is a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations.
Stoop Leader: Caneisha Haynes
Participants: Sasha Ahuja, Lauren Decerbo, Sara Hart, Lee Bullitt, Alexis Casson, Jet Toomer
The Performers group organized by Bed Stuy STooPs
Stoop Leader: Kendra Ross, Angelica Falcinelli
Participants: Adaku Utah, Laura Thompson, Stephanie Siegel, Autumn Scoggan, Nia Austin Edwards, Ziedah Diata, Sarah East Johnson
Project For Empty Space is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to bringing socially engaged and participatory projects to a multitude of communities through the utilization of abandoned and unusual urban spaces.
Stoop Leader: Meenakshi Thirukode
Participants: Jaret Vadera, Mike Estabrook, Richard Lovejoy, Rob Smith, Andres Marquez
The Public Science Project
Committed to the expanding the ‘right to research’ The Public Science Projects collaborates with communities in schools, prisons, community-based organizations, and public institutions to design and conduct research, practice, and policy aimed at interrupting injustice.
Stoop Leader: María Elena Torre
Participants: Caitllin Cahill, Madeline Fox, Sarah Zeller-Berkman, Wanda Acosta
The Puki Parade is an international feminist performance troupe that explores the hidden in history to make manifest ‘herstory’.
Stoop Leader: Reynolds
Participants: Judy Sky, Valerie Roux, Marguerite Van Cook, Yolande Hunter-Johnson, Hasan Johnson
Regeneración Childcare Collective
Regeneración Childcare NYC participates in child-raising as a form of resistance that builds radical communities and relationships.
Stoop Leader: Bhavana Nancherla
Participants: Alejandro Varela, Audrea Lim, Bhavana Nancherla, Diana Warwin, Kiran Kaur Bains, RJ Maccani
Reproductive Health Access Project
Regeneración Childcare NYC participates in child-raising as a form of resistance that builds radical communities and relationships.
Stoop Leader: Lisa Maldonado
Participants: Rosann Mariappuram, Alexandra Regas, Natasha Miller, Tiffany Cook
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
ROC-NY is dedicated to winning improved wages and working conditions for restaurant workers and raising public recognition of restaurant workers’ contributions to New York.
Stoop Leader: Tatiana Bejar
Participants: Dina Cedano, Ingrid Romero, Carlos Tenemea, Kevin Park, Maritza Cazares, Vivian Spruill, Angela Piril
Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides award-winning leadership education programs for more than 500 low-income young women annually from across NYC and Newark, NJ. Our mission is to strengthen, empower, and equip young women as agents for change in their lives and in the world. By increasing the participation of women in leadership roles, Sadie Nash seeks to question and redefine the nature of leadership and to promote perspectives and practices that are cooperative, accountable, ethical, and effective.
Stoop Leader: Michelina Ferrara
Participants: Young women of Sadie Nash Leadership Project
Safe Horizon’s Anti-Trafficking Program (ATP)
Stoop Leader: Avaloy Lanning, Senior Director
Participants: Jessica Penaranda, Shandra Woworuntu, Jessica Glynn, Juana Alcantara Jimenez
Safe OUTside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde Project
SOS is an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color.
SAKHI
Sakhi for South Asian Women responds to domestic violence in the South Asian community in New York City. Sakhi combines direct services, community mobilization and advocacy to unite survivors, communities and institutions to end violence against women.
Stoop Leader: Sethu Nair
Participants: Shahana Hanif, Shabana Sharif, Mandy Van Deven, Soniya Munshi
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
Multi-issue community-based organization that works with African immigrant women and families both in the New York City metropolitan area and nationally.
Stoop Leader: Nicole Baptiste
Participants: Nafadima Konate, Mariama Jalloh, Hawa Drame, Samiria Bertsche, Idayath Ibrahima
The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
The Sex Workers Project provides client-centered legal and social services to individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion.
Stoop Leader: Sienna Baskin
Participants: Claire Paradis McCullough, Karen Gardiner, Cayenne Doroshow, Dragonfly, Nicolette Dixon
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective
The South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian women artists and creative professionals by providing a physical and virtual space to profile their creative and intellectual work across disciplines.
Stoop Leader: Shelly Bahl
Participants: Sunita S. Mukhi, Monica Jahan Bose, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Maria Hupfield
Social Practices Art Network (SPAN)
Social Practices Art Network is an online platform that serves as a resource for individuals, organizations, community groups and institutions that are committed to socially engaged art and design practices.
Stoop Leader: Carol A. Stakenas
Participants: Nicole J. Caruth, Carin Kuoni, Stefani Bardin, Brooke Singer, Jules Rochielle Sievert, Linnaea Tillett, Anusha Venkataraman
Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge (SPARK)
SPARK is an international group of young women writing and engaging with the world to raise awareness about sexualization in the media.
Stoop Leader: Anya Josephs, Angela Baature
Participants: Lili Safon
Speakers of the House
Stoop Leader: Gloria Jacobs
Participants: Stephanie Urdang, Bernice Rubin, Kate Rounds, Rebecca Kirchheimer, Alexa Steinberg, Zohra Ahmad
Toasted Marshmallows is a film, performance and community building project chronicling two mixed-race women’s attempt at uncovering the cultures we were separated from.
Stoop Leader: Marcelitte Failla
Participants: Anoushka Ratnarajah, Grace Mateo, Katrina De Wees, Vivian Crockett
Turning Point for Women and Families
Stoop Leader: Yousma Natalia
Participants: Misbah Awan, Atiya Khan, Aniqa Hassan, Yassmin Abozeid, Dana Chaudhury
Unicorns Make Families Too
Unicorns Make Families Too consists of female assigned, trans/gender non-conforming people who are interested in having children, are expecting or have had and are parenting children. We will discuss what it means to make queer family in the on-going struggle for gender self-determination.
Stoop Leader: Yvette Choy
Participants: JD/Julie Davids, Shawn Tristan Powell, Additional Anonymous Participants
Water/Environmental Concerns Group
Artists and activists convene at 320 Park Place to talk about water, the substrate of life, how our access to it is imperiled around the world and what we as women can do to understand and protect it.
Stoop Leader: Tammy Pittman, Creative Director, Proteus Gowanus
Participants: Betsy Damon, Margaret Cogswell, Lise Brenner
Women from Gezi Platform NYC
Occupy Gezi NYC is a group of academics, intellectuals, artists, curators, workers and scientists in New York. We would like to show solidarity with our friends and brothers and sisters in Turkey, who have been subjected to immense police brutality by the Erdogan/AKP administration as a reaction to their non-violent, peaceful protests.
Stoop Leader: Aylin Tekiner
Participants: Eylem Delikanli, Gunes Terkol, Gulce Nazli Dikilitas, Olgu Aytac, Ceren Erdem
Women in Leadership
Stoop Leader: Catherine Morris, Curator of Elizabeth Sackler Feminist Center at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Participants: Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo Company;
Ippolita Rostagno, jewelry designer; Jennifer Raab, President of Hunter College; Laurie Cumbo, Council Member-Elect, District 35 Brooklyn; Dee Poku, Co-Founder and CEO of WIE Network
WORTH (Women On The Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)
An advocacy/consultant group comprised of currently and formerly incarcerated women, who have the expertise and understanding to engage, navigate and challenge policy and perception concerning incarcerated women.
Stoop Leader: Tina Reynolds
Participants: Andrea Lewis, Mercedes Smith, Savanna Stokely
