Who we are

Latinas en Poder is a transnational feminist organization that partners with grassroots women's groups and movements throughout Central America, the Caribbean and the U.S. to help build social, economic and political power and create healing justice. We help center women-led approaches and solutions to trans-border issues like migration, climate disaster and gender-based violence.

What we do

Latinas en Poder partners with women-led and centered groups throughout Latin America to create spaces for transformative dialogue in addressing multiple structural and institutional oppressions facing women, girls and youth in the region. Holding space across borders for necessary conversations that ask - and offer - more helps build local leadership, provides capacity building and training for the feminist leadership we need to seek alternative solutions to issues that continue to perpetuate harm disproportionately against women and girls. Through such capacity building, movements are made stronger, more connected and more adept at handling change, conflict and crisis.

What we've done

In Latinas en Poder's first year of existence, we have driven a primarily volunteer-led effort at organizing and hosting the first annual hybrid Summit, where we gathered nearly 500 people across multiple countries in a week-long conversation on some of the most pressing issues facing women and girls in the region. The Summit also included delegations to numerous countries in Central America where in-person community meetings were held and cross-border solutions to issues like economic autonomy, safety and security, and gender-based violence were shared. We have held multiple briefings and panel discussions, including on the persecution of gender justice groups in El Salvador, the realities and legacy of racism for Afro-Latinas, and the origins and policy considerations of migration in the Northern Triangle countries.

What we're planning, and why we need YOU.

Latinas en Poder is raising funds to help us:

Plan the 2nd Annual Summit
Launch the first regional school for feminist thought and training
Hold teach-ins and training for capacity building of grassroots women's groups, economic autonomy for survivors of violence, and human rights training to document, narrate and formulate policy demands
Host cross-border dialogues with grassroots leaders
Organize direct advocacy opportunities to speak with key policy makers

Your help goes a long well. Please donate!

As an exclusively community-driven, grassroots-funded and primarily volunteer-led effort, we depend on YOU to help keep us going. Please give generously to help the critical and timely work of LEP!

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