“When you invest in women, when you invest in women of color, you are investing in communities, you’re investing in whole families,” Marlene Sanchez said.
“When you invest in women, when you invest in women of color, you are investing in communities, you’re investing in whole families,” said Marlene Sanchez, who became executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in March 2022. It is often said that a child’s imagination is their greatest gift — encouraging them to play with reality and shielding them from worldly pains.
Today, Sanchez sits as the first woman of color executive director of Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, named after the prodigious African American civil rights activist and devoted to grassroots campaigns for racial and economic justice. With the absence of both parents came the need to belong to something. This propelled Sanchez to join a gang at 13. “I found respect there,” she said, adding that it was vital to her survival. “Learning about people like Angela Davis was a sort of political awakening for me.”In the 1990s, guided by organizations in the Mission that invested in her, Sanchez found her way to the Young Women’s Freedom Center .
“When you invest in women, when you invest in women of color, you are investing in communities, you’re investing in whole families,” she said.
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