Rockwood Chair of the Board Interviewed about Oakland-Based "Brotherhood of Elders"

Saru Jayaraman and Kierra Johnson Recognized for being Women of Vision

Trans 100 Rockwood leaders celebrated for their groundbreaking work: Kylar Broadus, Cecilia Chung, Masen Davis, Justus Eisfeld, Zander Keig, Dru Levasseur, Shane Morgan, Teiji Okamoto, Harper Jean Tobin, Jaan Williams

Rockwood alum Nadine Smith writes of the connections between interracial marriage and marriage equality

The Rockwood alum was featured on Democracy Now

Rockwood Alum Discusses How to be a Good Ally

The two Rockwood Leading from the Inside Out Fellows help launch the campaign as members of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda

The National Leading from the Inside Out Fellow discusses Arizona's proposed anti-transgender legislation to criminalize people who use the "wrong bathroom"

Rockwood trainer and deputy director of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force discusses marriage equality and more

Judith Browne Dianis, Nita Chaudhary, Sarita Gupta, and Angelica Salas Made the List

Rockwood BCORR Alum and Author Suggests Speaking Out When You Dine Out

The Head of White House Domestic Policy Council and Rockwood Leading from the Inside Out Alum Highlighted for Her Work on Immigration

Both leaders are alums of Rockwood's National Yearlong Leading from the Inside Out Fellowship

Rockwood Leading from the Inside Out Alum to Lead NARAL Pro-Choice America

Rockwood Alum Selected by Foreign Policy as 1 of 10 Women Obama Could Appoint to Top Security Posts

"I believe that if we're going to really make change in the world...it's going to require that we love each other."

Shahid Buttar and Michelle Richardson Discuss the Law that Allows Wiretapping Without a Warrant

The Rockwood Fellowship for New California Fellow received the award from Rockwood Fellow Nora Preciado

List includes leaders from Rockwood's Art of Leadership, Leading from the Inside Out, Building Capacity for Organizational Resilience & Renewal, and other Fellowships

Earl Plante joins SF Pride from the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York City

Jotaka Eaddy wins Midwest Academy Heather Award for her contributions to the Progressive Movement

Founder of AWC-Arab Women in the Center recognized for raising public awareness about the murders of Arab women

"Yes, WE Can!" and "The Path Forward Starts with Learning from the Past" Poo and Goehl say on Moyers & Co "What Matters Today"

SF Chronicle Op Ed co-written by Jane Martin and Gabriel Haaland on San Francisco Politics, Feminism, and Compassion

The Rockwood Fellowship for New California alum published this op ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune

Davis Op Ed says innovative school board proposal contains real elements of restorative justice

The Rockwood Leading from the Inside Out Fellow is recognized as one of the US's most influential Black leaders

Roots 100 profiles these three Rockwood Leading from the Inside Out alums

The Sikh Coalition (Rockwood alum Rajdeep Singh is Director of Law & Policy) introduced and sponsored the bill

Executive Director of National Security Network a past Rockwood Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow

Rockwood alum defends rights of pregnant and "suspected pregnant" girls

The Nation lists 8 Social Justice Heroes – 4 of them Rockwood alums

Rockwood alum Rajasvini Bhansali interviewed by Jonathan Lewis in Huffington Post

In May 2012, the Art of Collaborative Leadership alum received the women's leadership and entrepreneurship award for her relentless efforts to build a diverse forum of women in her hometown, Beit Shemesh.

Art of Collaborative Leadership alum and founder of Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel co-awarded prestigious honor

Leading from the Inside Out alum will head campaign in Minnesota

Organization led by Media, Communications, and Information Policy Fellow Linda Jue Wins Murrow Award for Audio Investigative Reporting

Nonprofit Quarterly article co-written by Rockwood Selah alum Robin Katcher, featuring alums George Goehl and Ai-Jen Poo

Northern California Community Loan Fund President in SF Business Times

Rockwood Trainer guest blogger on the 3rd Act

Rockwood Arts & Culture Fellow to be Nominated to White House Administration Post

Rockwood alum Rajdeep Singh is Director of Law and Policy at the Sikh Coalition, which unveiled the mobile app

Malkia Cyril and Rachel Tiven Selected for Forty Under 40

Rockwood alum Van Jones' new book and organization is amplifying key demands & offering new ways to solve our nation's problems

Rockwood alum Sarita Gupta on corporations acting badly and the 99% Power Movement

Read Gloria Steinem's profile of Poo, Rockwood alum and co-founder of National Domestic Workers Alliance

Learn what inspires the leadership of this Rockwood alum and staff member

Rockwood Fellowship alum to begin her new post at NAMIC effective April 2, 2012.

Billy Parish and Dev Aujla co-authored "Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and Community in a Changing World" offering practical solutions for how to succeed financially while making positive change in the world

The Rockwood alum and President of National Council of La Raza CEO Murguía will be honored along with Barney Frank May 2012

President Obama Announces New White House Director of Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz

Vincent Warren is a Rockwood National Yearlong Fellow and executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights

New York Times "Room for Debate" article by Rajdeep Singh, Rockwood alum and director of law and policy for the Sikh Coalition

Nikki Fortunato Bas, Rockwood alum and director of EBASE, talks about race, justice, and thriving communities in this Sunday Insight feature

Cyril was featured in SF Chronicle for her work as founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice

Rockwood alum Rinku Sen discusses the human cost of harsh immigration policies.

Rockwood National Yearlong Leading from the Inside Out alum Kung Li offers a sweeping historical perspective about why you must face race to Occupy Atlanta.

Hear how Talat Hamdani, Rockwood Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow, talks about how the loss of her son on 9/11 and the injustices surrounding his death inspired her to speak out.

Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, an Arab citizen of Israel, and Vivian Silver, a Jewish citizen of Israel, will receive the Goldberg Prize in recognition of their efforts to promote peace and development by working to build a more just society in Israel. This is the first time that the Goldberg IIE Prize is being awarded to two women leaders.

Rockwood Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow, Catherine Read, named one of the "40 under 40" young lobbyists with the most influence in Washington, D.C.

Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, is profiled by Barbara Ehrenreich in the NY Times Magazine. Poo is recognized for her work in organizing domestic workers and the 2010 passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in the New York State legislature. Ai-jen Poo is an alumna of Rockwood’s Leading from the Inside Out Yearlong Fellowship.

Forty-three years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s slaying, those who fight for social and economic justice still face real threats to their safety and rights, says the NAACP's president.

Ilyse Hogue, a Leading from the Inside Out Fellow, recently published an article in The Nation about what Wisconsin, ACORN, and Planned Parenthood share in common.

Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network, and Rockwood Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow, offers Keith Olbermann her assessment of President Barack Obama's execution of the war on terror.

Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director of the National Security Network, provides perspective on President Obama’s national security record on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Heather is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Rockwood Fellowship for Human Rights and National Security Reform Leaders.

Friend, alumna and Sustainer of Rockwood, Annie Leonard, appears on The Colbert Report and teaches Stephen a thing or two.

The Sierra Club, the largest and oldest environmental advocacy group in the nation, has named Rockwood Alum, Michael Brune, its next executive director. A longtime environmental organizer who has headed the Rainforest Action Network for the last seven years, Brune will succeed Carl Pope in March.

Featured on the cover of the latest Yes! Magazine is Climate Hero and Rockwood Alumna, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins. In March 2009 Phaedra, a graduate of Rockwood's Leading from the Inside Out class of 2005, became the Chief Executive Officer of Green for All, a national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Read more about Phaedra, as well as articles from other Rockwood alumnae/i including Annie Leonard, Rob Biko Baker and Colin Beavan at Yes!'s website.

Rockwood is proud to celebrate Chellie Pingree, a graduate of Rockwood's Leading from the Inside Out Yearlong Fellowship and the elected representative to Congress from Maine's first district. Her election in 2008 marked the first time a woman was elected to Congress from that district and, for the first time in American History, that a state’s Congressional Delegation was comprised with a female majority.

Recent Leading from the Inside Out grad, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner knows that women's happiness has nothing to do with a dead deer on the table. Read more about her thoughts on the matter with her front-page entry for the popular website, The Huffington Post.

Earlier this month, recent graduate of Rockwood's yearlong fellowship, Leading from the Inside Out, Sharon Lettman was named Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition. Based in Washington DC, NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and ending racism and homophobia. Sharon succeeds another Rockwood alumnus, Alexander Robinson, who skillfully guided NBJC for five years.

Every spring National People's Action brings hundreds of community organizers and grassroots leaders from across the country to Washington for its annual conference. And every year the event culminates in a hotly anticipated and meticulously planned direct action.

The thick-lined drawings of the Earth, a factory and a house, meant to convey the cycle of human consumption, are straightforward and child-friendly. So are the pictures of dark puffs of factory smoke and an outlined skull and crossbones, representing polluting chemicals floating in the air.

When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement. And for good reason. A pioneer in fusing economic opportunity and social justice with environmentalism, Jones, 40, represents an important progression in our country's perception and thus our approach to combatting global warming.

A special report on the eco-pioneers fighting for a cleaner, greener future.

In just over a decade, Ms. Carter, 42, has vaulted from working as a volunteer for what was a nascent organization called the Point Community Development Corporation and knowing almost nothing about environmental issues to becoming a nationally known advocate for environmental justice.

In just 10 years, the tiny Working Families Party has built a reputation for pulling off upset victories in low-turnout primaries and special elections, one or two at a time. Now, however, in a presidential election year, and with the Senate’s Republican majority endangered for the first time in decades, the party is putting its record on the line in half a dozen races from Ronkonkoma to Rochester.

From 2002-2003 the Oakland police department made 218 arrests of Sex workers. The epidemic of sex work in the bay area is not new but there is a push towards changing the policies that effect how sexually exploited minors are treated. At the head of this movement is Elizabeth Sy -- Director of Banteay Srei at the East Bay Asian Youth Center a 26 year old first generation cambodian woman who recently won a Rising Peace Maker Prize for her work with young women involved in the sex trade. YO! Recently talked with Sy and found out what steps she feels must be taken for sexually exploited minors.

Billy Wimsatt founded The League of Young Voters in 2003 to organize and empower youth – particularly young people from low-income communities who haven’t attended college.

"Not being bold is sometimes too awful to imagine,” says Katie Redford. She should know. Katie’s career as a human rights lawyer is a combination of the boldest elements. It started in a small village near the border of Thailand and Burma, where she volunteered as an English teacher directly after college. It was an experience that changed this champion athlete from Massachusetts forever.