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For Women's History Month, Millennial Leaders Reflect On Their Work And Who Inspires Them

Laura Tsutsui
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Valley Public Radio
From left to right: Alexandria Ramos-O'Casey, Yasmin Mendoza, and Kamaljit Kaur all work with different communities, some focusing on youth, others on people of color. For Women's History Month, they reflected on who has inspired them.

March is Women’s History Month, and here at Valley Public Radio, we wanted to spend a part of it talking to women who are young leaders here in the Central Valley.

We spoke with Yasmin Mendoza, organizer of the Fresno Chapter of March for Our Lives and a community organizer with the Dolores Huerta Foundation; Alexandria Ramos-O’Casey, who most recently was a consultant on the campaign for Kingsburg City Councilmember Jewel Hurtado; and Kamaljit Kaur, who is the Fresno County community organizer for the Jakara Movement.

 
Listen to the audio above to hear the three talk about being young women of color in community organizing roles, and the pushback they say they face regularly.

Laura Tsutsui was a reporter and producer for Valley Public Radio. She joined the station in 2017 as a news intern, and later worked as a production assistant and weekend host. Laura covered local issues ranging from politics to housing, and produced the weekly news program Valley Edition. She left the station in November 2020.