YWFC

Position Description: Young Women’s Freedom Center is seeking to fill 3 full-time Self-Determination Coordinator positions for our Oakland Site. The Self-Determination Coordinator role is grounded in YWFC’s approach to personal and structural transformation and is guided by the organization's guiding principles of Sisterhood/ Siblinghood, Self-Sufficiency, Spirituality, and Social Justice. The Self-Determination Coordinator works to ensure that...

Ideal Candidate: To be successful in this role, the candidate be able to take direction well, execute tasks and manage projects efficiently and independently, and with exceptional attention to detail. The ideal candidate would be a team-player, have the ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment, and possess the skill-set necessary to juggle competing priorities...

Happy Juneteenth YWFC Fam! Here at YWFC, we celebrate the holidays that have meaning to our people!  Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day for African American folks, and it began in Texas. Black Texans were not notified of their freedom until June 19th, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth...

The Participatory Defense Coordinator will oversee Statewide Participatory Defense Hubs in Alameda County, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Additionally, the Participatory Defense Coordinator will lead YWFC’s San Francisco PD work including outreach and the organization and oversight of weekly meetings. This position will work under the direction of the Director Local Initiatives and in...

By Freddie Francis for YWFC The connections between climate crisis and the prison industrial complex may not be immediately obvious. But Californians living through the escalating intensity of annual wildfires have no choice but to confront our state’s reliance on the labor of incarcerated firefighters.  California houses 192 crews of incarcerated firefighters across the state: people...

For over 27 years, YWFC has engaged with over 40,000 cis and trans women and girls, trans men and boys and, gender-expansive youth, and invested in the leadership and power of youth of color who have been disproportionately affected by various systems in San Francisco and the Bay area. YWFC engagement supports a movement...

In telling my story, I always start with my grandmother's migration to the states. She is my namesake and she was born at the end of a Mexican Revolution in Oaxaca in a small town of Cacahuatepec. She was an indigenous woman whose motherland was stolen by Spanish conquerors. At the age of nine,...