The Womxn Project

Creatively Educating & Changing Policy Through Artistic Actions

Meet The Womxn Project Staff

 

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Executive Director
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Jocelyn is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Womxn Project and the Co-Founder and Chair of the Womxn Project Education Fund. She has built her reputation as a community gatherer and artist spanning two decades in a marketing and promotions career; as a graduate professor of art and design; and as a successful gallery artist combining performance, sculpture, and spectacle. Her passion for shared experiences and community growth led to creating an art collective with other MFA artists around Los Angeles to further unrepresented voices in the fine art world. Jocelyn was a recipient of the 2014 NEA and City of Long Beach, CA Arts Grant and the prestigious Emerging Visual Artist fellow with the California Community Foundation.

Returning to the East Coast, Jocelyn created a lecture series at Hera Gallery in RI in response to the 2016 election to educate the public using subject matter experts in art, activism, and politics. This led to national recognition for lobbying and the creation of accessible, grass roots, art and spectacle-based activism that helped lead the state to codify Roe vs. Wade protections as law.

Jocelyn’s continued mission is to bring her artistic training and experience as a marketing director, contemporary feminist sculptor and design professor to the artivist movement that champions and includes all persons.


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Kaitlynn
Operations Director
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Born and raised by her two dads in Northeast Los Angeles, Kaitlynn is a first generation American and a Latina who brings a passion for politics. Kaitlynn was the Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper and a volunteer with her local neighborhood organizations. She came out east to attend the University of Massachusetts Boston where she graduated with a Bachelor’s in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy from the Honors College. She also received a graduate certificate in Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy and went on to pursue a Master of Public Administration degree. 
 
While at UMass, Kaitlynn was the President of the College Dems and a founding member of UMB Voter Coalition to help increase voting and political involvement on campus. She held many leadership roles, which helped to prepare her for her work on several political campaigns, including as a campus leader for Senator Elizabeth Warren during her 2018 Senate campaign as well as her 2020 Presidential campaign. 
 
Kaitlynn served as a communications and policy intern for Andrea Campbell during her Boston City Council campaign in 2019 and went on to work for her race for Mayor of Boston in 2021. She worked as the Communications Director for State Senator Jason Lewis where she managed all of his public facing communications including talking points, press releases, social media, local cable tv, Community conversations, and Town Halls.
 
Kaitlynn is excited to bring her skills and passion for writing and journalism along with her dedication to shaping and influencing both the political process and policy making to The Womxn Project and to be part of our efforts to advance reproductive health, rights and justice. 
 
 
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The Womxn Project Education Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that uses the arts to build a more just and equitable Rhode Island.