RAHELA TRUST FOR AFGHAN WOMEN’ S EDUCATION provides university scholarships to Afghan women in need. This grant will support five new scholars monthly for community capacity building, pocket money, and communication costs for the 2024 academic year. These women will mentor other women at the community level to become agents of change.
THE RAPP CAMPAIGN( RELEASE AGING PEOPLE IN PRISON) carries out public education, organizing, and advocacy work. RAPP focuses on community-driven advocacy aimed at ending the aging in prison epidemic. It is a tribute to RAPP co-founder and brilliant leader Mujahid Farid.
REENTRY ROCKS, founded by Sharon Richardson, supports all women and non-binary people in their journeys to heal from their past and rebuild their lives. Their mission is to spread awareness and create societal and institutional change, by supporting returning citizens through strength-based, creative programming. Re-Entry Rocks empowers formerly incarcerated survivors with histories of domestic violence and abuse; dismantling barriers to success through training, mentorship, counseling, and case management. Their trauma-informed approach centers healing through selfawareness, storytelling, accountability, and change; rock by rock. This grant will support an internship training class in the spring which will offer direct training in culinary arts and business models.
ROLEPLAY is a film documenting the story of a group of Tulane University students who, after being faced with rampant sexual violence on their college campus, spent a year creating an immersive play from their real-life experiences. Building characters and scenes based on the sexual politics of their campus, the student actors confront hard truths. The film follows this process with a lyrical lens, blurring the lines between reality and performance, moving between verite of campus life and the confessional vulnerability of the rehearsal room. Posing urgent questions about toxic legacies, trauma and healing, ROLEPLAY explores the roles we play as we grow into who we are: how they hurt us, how they heal us, and how they shape our futures. Directed by Katie Mathews and produced by Abby Epstein.