Womens Initiative for Self- empowerment
ST PAUL, MN
The Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE), Inc. was founded by multi-cultural, first- generation immigrant women in 1995 as a vehicle for social, economic, and leadership empowerment. Its mission is to support immigrant and refugee women, girls and those on the feminine gender spectrum in their journey of self-actualization through culturally-responsive education, advocacy, systems change and resource development. This is accomplished through strategic alliances, leveraging resources, and designing services that incorporate its core values.WISE believes it is a basic human right for all to access quality education, have reproductive freedom, and to live free of violence. Racial justice, environmental justice, economic justice, and social justice are all inextricably intertwined with achieving equity across issues, ethnicities and socio-economic classes.