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About Our Name Change OUR NEW NAME, BOLD FUTURES, GIVES US SPACE TO BE OUR FULL SELVES. For twenty-five years, we have worked to build reproductive justice in New Mexico by and for women and people of color. As we stepped into our 20th Anniversary, Young Women United wanted a name that reflected who we are today
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Feb 13, 2023 · We live in a giant state. It takes me three hours on the highway to get to Albuquerque,” said Charlene Bencomo, executive director of the New Mexico reproductive justice organization Bold...
Check out this must read interview with YWU Las Cruces leader Charlene Bencomo. Charlene shares her experience with sexual assault and her journey from trauma to advocacy. Charlene was one of over 5,000 people in New Mexico who experienced assault and did not have her rape kit tested for years.
Jan 26, 2021 · January 26, 2021 ·. Yesterday our own Charlene Bencomo spoke truth to power in a statement made to the media during a press conference for the Respect NM Women and Families Act. She shared, "As a woman, and a survivor of a sexual assault, bodily agency is everything to me.
Sep 7, 2021 · Charlene Bencomo is the executive director of Bold Futures New Mexico, one of the organizations that pushed the New Mexico Legislature in 2021 to clear from the books a dormant law that banned abortion but was no longer in play after Roe v. Wade. “We are still living in a devastating global pandemic,” she said.
Las Cruces based Executive Director of Bold Futures, Charlene Bencomo discusses the Catholic Church’s recent statement on a COVID 19 vaccine and its link to a larger pattern of denying care and services based on religious and moral beliefs. “We cannot allow the religious beliefs of some to serve as a barrier to access for others.
