This month, Woods Fund Chicago sat down with LaSaia Wade, the Founder and Executive Director of Brave Space Alliance. LaSaia talks about the services provided by the Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ organization, what it means to have a "brave space," and what the pathway towards liberation looks like.

This month, we sat down with A Long Walk Home, an organization that works to eliminate gender-based violence. The organization — which helped organize the #MuteRKelly campaign — spoke with us following the long-awaited conviction of R. Kelly to discuss how cultural understandings of gender-based violence have changed in the years since A Long Walk Home was founded, and how the organization’s work creates a world of healing, equity, and justice.

Woods Fund sat down with Moises Moreno, the director of the Pilsen Alliance, to discuss the Alliance's work in housing, education, and creating a base of community leaders.

Woods Fund Chicago sat down with Katelyn Johnson, a leader within P.U.R.E. Cannabis Coalition and the Executive Director of Black Roots Alliance