Dana Ginn Paredes
Dana Ginn Paredes has worked for social justice organizations for more than 12 years as a field organizer, trainer, national program director, and organizing director. Dana’s previous work to promote racial equity and healthy families within welfare policy led her to develop a strong interest in reproductive justice issues for women, youth, and communities of color. She joined the Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, or ACRJ, in 2003, and in that time, she has led research to advance comprehensive sex education policy for California public schools, has led electoral campaigns that advance reproductive justice, and has initiated and overseen the development of ACRJ's current youth and worker organizing projects and climate change initiative.
Dana is a 2008-09 fellow of the National APAWLI Signature Program of The Center for Asian Pacific American Women; a 2008 participant of the CLEAR Executive Training Program of Communications Leadership Institute; a 2007 fellow of the Women's Policy Institute; and serves on the steering committee for the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative and the Oakland Climate Action Coalition. Dana holds a B.S. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
