To every policymaker, funder, advocate, and community leader: the time for performative allyship is over. The time for bold, data-driven, equity-centered action is now. Because when we use the truth to inform our strategies—and the stories behind the statistics to guide our steps—we don’t just change outcomes for Black Women. We change the future of California. And we will keep rising—until equity isn’t just a promise, it’s a practice.
• California Interagency Council on Homelessness (2023)
• Project Diane, State of Black & Latina Women Entrepreneurs (2023) • California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute, Pay Me What I’m Worth (2023) • Mount Saint Mary’s University, Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California (2023)
• American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures 2024
• California Black
Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute, Black
Women’s Quality of Life Report (2024)
• Bureau of Labor and Statistics,
XIII. Report Data Sources
Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age
• California Black
• Lean In & McKinsey: State of Black Women in Corporate America
Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute, State of Black Women in California (2018 and 2023)
• Ms. Foundation for Women: Pocket Change: How Women and
• Romanelli et al., MS Prevalence in Northern California (2020)
Girls of Color Do More with Less
• Affluence and Breast Cancer: Provided insights into income-related disparities and racial differences in breast cancer survival • Multiple Sclerosis in a Multi-ethnic Population from Northern California: Offered detailed epidemiological data on MS prevalence, with specific findings for non-Hispanic Black Women
• California Budget & Policy Center, Toward Equity: Racial Disparities Among California’s Women and Girls (2022) • American Heart Association, Cardiovascular Health in African Americans (2022)å • California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Maternal Mortality Data (2022)
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