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Jamia Wilson

Jamia Wilson, vice president of programs for the Women’s Media Center, serves on advisory committees for Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom and the Ms. Foundation. She came to WMC from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, where she managed their youth outreach program Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood. After growing up as an expatriate in Saudi Arabia, she graduated from American University and received her M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU, where she focused on research and writing inspired by critical race theory and gender studies.

Recent Posts by Jamia Wilson

Congratulations to the Top Six Girls’ State of the Union (#GSOTU) Video Contest Finalists

January 27, 2012 – 5:48 pm

ShareOn November 16, 2011, the Women’s Media Center invited girls ages 14-22, to create a 1- 5 minute video for our first annual Girls State of the Union (#GSOTU) video contest. Like the President’s report, the Girls’ State of the Union sums up the condition of the country—with a special emphasis on the welfare of girls.

What If The Media’s Gender Tables Were Turned? WMC Co-Founder Gloria Steinem and Nell Scovell Imagine a New Reality

November 25, 2011 – 3:30 pm

ShareThe Women’s Media Center works to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard. Women’s Media Center Co-Founder Gloria Steinem and Vanity Fair‘s Nell Scovell address the crisis of representation in the media in their witty Huffington Post piece 15 Ways the Media Would be Different If It Were Run by 97 % Women [...]

NYC Jane Premiere Re-cap

April 21, 2011 – 7:30 pm

Share Last night, the Women’s Media Center (WMC) hosted Jane Fonda (WMC Co-Founder), Gabourey Sidibe, Gloria Steinem (WMC Co-Founder), and Marlo Thomas for the New York City premiere of D.A. Pennebaker’s (The War Room, Don’t Look Back) documentary Jane on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at The Paley Center for Media at 8:00pm. Over 200 friends and supporters [...]

WMC at Women in the World 2011

March 9, 2011 – 5:55 pm

ShareWe’re thrilled to be live-tweeting some of the informative and inspiring panels at Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s second annual Women in the World summit. We’ll be tweeting from @womensmediacntr using the hashtag #WIW11. Tune in to our live-tweeting of Nawal El-Saadawi’s conversation and interview with WMC’s co-founder Robin Morgan on Saturday morning at 10:50 [...]

Combating The Sexualization of Girls…The Right Way

December 30, 2010 – 5:10 pm

ShareThis article originally appeared on RHRealityCheck and was written by Sarah Seltzer.

MTV Abortion Special “No Easy Decision” Addresses Abortion with Compassionate Integrity

December 29, 2010 – 8:36 pm

ShareFor the first time in three seasons of MTV’s popular series “16 & Pregnant,” and one season of “Teen Mom,” MTV aired their first coverage of teens who chose to have abortions in last night’s 11:30 EST special titled No Easy Decision.

Join The Call for Women’s Fiscal Strength

November 30, 2010 – 5:26 pm

ShareDid you know that 6.1 million women are single mothers and the sole breadwinners for their households? Additionally, 2.1 million women whose husbands were unemployed were working as the breadwinners for their families as of December 2009.

Really Rush? Limbaugh Proposes that Obama “Take His Daughter To The Airport And Have A TSA Grope Her”

November 23, 2010 – 4:51 pm

ShareWMC’s Interim President Julie Burton said Rush Limbaugh “is now officially the nation’s crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner,” in response to his suggestion that President Obama “take his daughter to the airport and have a TSA grope her”.

Election 2010: Women to Watch

November 2, 2010 – 4:31 pm

ShareBe on top of the issues and stay informed about what is at stake for women in the 2010 midterm elections through the following commentaries by Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices (PWV) alumnae.

EXCLUSIVE Manifesting a Movement—a Spiritual Uprising

October 8, 2010 – 9:09 am

ShareBy Jamia Wilson Inspired by the women she met at the Omega Women and Power Conference, WMC’s Jamia Wilson explains why their visions of spirituality belong at the heart of feminism. For me, feminism is God’s work. Yes, I am a pro-choice feminist who celebrates science, and is committed to protecting first amendment rights for [...]