Community spotlight!
We love seeing you in Zuris out and about and in the news, and we especially love when you share your sightings and run-ins with us! We've said it before, but we are constantly amazed and inspired by the incredible women in our community, and we're spotlighting a few today!
Meet Prof. Melissa Murray! She's a Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and Co-Director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network, and a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. She also co-hosts Strictly Scrutiny, a podcast about the Supreme Court. We'd highly recommend giving it a listen, especially if you're interested in recent Court decisions and how they affect us all.
Minerva Cuevas is a conceptual artist whose socially engaged practice encompasses a range of strategies and media including film, installation, performance, and site-specific public intervention. Her on-going work, Mejor Vida Corp., is a non-profit corporation that creates, promotes and distributes products and services for free, and through these subversive interventions, she is challenging how we think about our established economic and political systems.
Activist Alice Wong is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. She is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, which just came out and we can't recommend it enough!
Artist Claire Ashley transforms ordinary materials into inflatable painted sculptures and they are truly mind-blowing! Her work investigates inflatables as painting, sculpture, installation and performance costume. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and we love their humor and interactivity.
GIVING UPDATE // Equal Justice Initiative
We are so proud and grateful to you, our community, for your masks purchases that have enabled us to donate a total of $8,700 from mask sales from the month of June to the Equal Justice Initiative. We will continue to direct the proceeds from masks sales this month to the Equal Justice Initiative to support their work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality.
