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The Womxn Project

Creatively Educating Through Artistic Action

  • About
    • Press
    • Meet Our People
      • Board of Directors
      • Staff
    • Contact & Join Us!
    • The Womxn Project Education Fund
  • Act
    • Policy
      • Campaign for Equal Abortion Coverage
      • History of the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
      • Clean Budget 2022
      • Open & Accessible Government Letter
      • Reproductive Privacy Act, 2019
    • Exposing Fake Clinics in RI Report, 2021
    • Abortion Interview Series
    • Solidarity Sign-Ons
    • Testimony
  • Artivism
    • Illuminating the Legacy of Slavery in RI: Projection and Performative Reading Series
    • “RI for All” Video Series
    • Projections
    • Community Petition Quilt
    • Writing
  • Learn
    • Need an abortion?
    • Abortion Research
      • For Everyone
      • For Journalists
    • Legal
    • Testify 101 Workshop
    • Panel Discussions
      • 2022: Voting Rights & Repro Freedom
      • 2021 Conversation Series
      • “The Well” (“El Pozo”), Community Gatherings
      • COVID Response: #SustainingCommunity
      • #LiberatingPleasure
      • Election 2020 Panels
    • Stress Management Training for Activists
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Honors, Recognitions, & Speaking Engagements

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The Womxn Project works throughout Rhode Island to demystify state and federal politics and to invite people to use their creativity as well as their voices to demand reproductive justice, freedom, and bodily autonomy. With inclusivity always in our focus, we partner with regional and national organizations to effectuate our mission. Our accomplishments have been recognized locally and nationally. The following list speaking engagements, creative endeavors, awards, and recognitions TWP have received since our founding in 2017. 

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2021

  • Rhode Island Council for the Humanities – Public Humanities in the Age of Social Distancing, The Womxn Project Education Fund – Illuminating the Legacy of Slavery in Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island Council for the Humanities – Major Grant Awards, The Womxn Project Education Fund / The Civics Project

  • “The Womxn Project: Reproductive Justice Advocacy, ARTisvism, and Organizing in Rhode Island,” Medical Students for Choice Virtual Conference
    (Speaking by Tammy Brown, Jennifer Rourke, and Jocelyn Foye)

  • Interview on Red Cloaks Radio
  • Interview: Jennifer Rourke on the Progress Report

  • Panel discussion on the value of postcarding in legislative activism by NARAL National
    (Speaking by Deb Kopech)

  • Class discussion of what is grassroots activism and how to create your own organizing program, Brown University
    (Speaking by Jocelyn Foye & Jordan Hevenor)

  • Activism and Action, St. Edwards School
    (Teaching by Tammy Brown)

2020

  • Interview: Tammy Brown on the Progress Report

  • Leadership in Small Business, Local Politics and Community Service/Non-Profit Orgs Panel Discussion, University of RI 
    (Speaking by Jocelyn Foye)

  • Mama Knows Best Panel Participation
    (Speaking by Janie Segui)

  • Screen Shot 2020 10 20 at 11.20.47 PMBoard members drove to DC during the COVID pandemic to rally around SCOTUS nomination

  • Representation Matters Panel Participation
    (Speaking by Jennifer Rourke)

  • How to Be a Better Person Podcast, Episode 279
    (Interview with Jordan Hevenor and Jocelyn Foye)

  • National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award

  • “Wild Woman” Honor from the Domestic Abuse Center of South County for Jordan Hevenor

  • Art exhibition, “5th Decade, Hera Gallery,” Jamestown Art Center
    (Speaking by Jocelyn Foye)

  • “Grassroots Organizing and Volunteer Engagement,” New Leaders Council
    (Speaking by Jennifer Rourke and Jocelyn Foye)
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  • Roe at Risk, Trip to Washington DC to Rally in front of the SCOTUS & meet our Senate Delegation, hosts

  • The Womxn Project is added to the Pembroke Archive of Brown University, Rhode Island History of Women and Non-Binary People

  • Legislative Grant Award, International Women’s Day in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

  • Roe at 47 Press Conference, hosts
    (Speaking by Stephanie Moniz, Yojaida Herrida, Jordan Hevenor)

  • RI Women’s March, 2020
    (Speaking by Emily Boucher)

  • Class discussion of what is grassroots activism and how to create your own organizing program, Brown University
    (Speaking by Jocelyn Foye and Jordan Hevenor)

  • Legislative Kick Off Panel Discussion, hosts

  • University of Rhode Island Activism Class
    (Speaking by Jordan Hevenor)

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2019

  • “Wild Woman” Honor from the Domestic Abuse Center of South County for Jocelyn Foye

  • Women’s Policy Institute, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island 2020 Legislative Goals Panel
    (Speaking by Jordan Hevenor)

  • Center for Reproductive Rights Summit 2019
    (Recognition TWP for helping make RI a “Safe State”) Newspaper

  • Reproductive Privacy Act is signed into law
    (Legislation Passage) 

  • Rhode Island Democratic Women Caucus’s Special Honor

  • Epic Theater Reading & Discussion on Passing the RPA in Rhode Island
    (Speaking by Jordan Hevenor)

  • Breakthrough (ASE Day) Providence, Wheeler School
    (Teaching by Tammy Brown and Emily Boucher)

  • Lincoln School Career Day
    (Speaking by Stephanie Olarte)

  • Bryant University
    (Speaking by Caroline Morgan)

  • Rhode Island College
    (Speaking by Jordan Hevenor)

  • Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition presented to Caroline Jackson Morgan in honor of being recognized by Hope and Change for Haiti for your volunteer services and your support of women’s rights.  March 8th, 2019 -Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator
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  • Cocktail and Conversations, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island
    (Speaking by Stephanie Olarte)

  • “State Opportunities: How do we get State-level Organizing and Cross-State Alignment to Add Up to National Change in this moment,” National Healthcare Access Conference, Washington DC
    (Speaking by Jordan Hevenor)

2018

  • Art Exhibition, “Our Voice, Our Choice,” Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
    (Speaking by Mara Trachtenberg)

  • Newport Art Museum
    (Speaking and Presentation by Jocelyn Foye and Mara Trachtenberg)

  • Speak Up, Speak Out International Speaker Event, hosts

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  • Design and Activism, Roger William University Graphic Design Department
    (Speaking by Jocelyn Foye)

  • Delegates chosen to represent RI and present community quilt, Center for Reproductive Rights, Washington DC
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  • Vagina Warriors, given by Vagina Monologues 2018

  • Women’s March 2018
    (Speaking by Emily Boucher & Deb Kopech)

2017

  • Our Voice, Our Choice, an art-in for Reproductive Right in Rhode Island, hosts

  • South County Dinner March for Social Justice, Hera Gallery and Unitarian Universalist of Southern County, hostsemilySpeaking

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The Womxn Project (TWP) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization in Rhode Island focused on building a strong, feminist, community-based movement to further human rights of Rhode Islanders by using art and activism to advance education and social change. TWP stirs social awareness and invites political action to inclusively further womxn’s rights through creative advocacy campaigns and collaborative art projects. Read More...

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