Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at MomsRising, Monifa Bandele, joins The Lurie Daniel Favors Show this week to discuss the latest and greatest that is happening in terms of reproductive justice.
About Monifa Bandele
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at MomsRising, Monifa Bandele co-leads a national on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people working to achieve economic security and justice for moms, women, and families. There, she directs the organization’s work on reproductive justice, maternal and children’s health, and criminal justice reform–including ending the school-to-prison pipeline, successfully winning better practices and policies at the federal, state, and local levels. Prior to her tenure at MomsRising, she had already been a leader in the field of policy analysis, communications, civic engagement organizing, and project management working with groups like the Brennan Center for Justice, Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. During her tenure at the Brennan Center as national field director for the Right to Vote Campaign, the coalition successfully changed laws in five states expanding the franchise to more that 250,000 formerly incarcerated people.
