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The '''Women of Color Resource Center''' was founded in 1990 by [[Linda Burnham]] and [[Miriam Ching Yoon Louie]], who met at [[UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi|U.N. World Conference on Women]] in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985.<ref>Ford Foundation. Close to Home : Case Studies of Human Rights Work in the United States. New York, NY : Ford Foundation, 2004. http://archive.org/details/closetohomecases00ford.
</ref> They were joined at the WCRC by Caroline Guilartes, Jung Hee Choi, [[Angela Davis]], Derethia DuVal, Chris Lymbertos, Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, [[Margo Okazawa-Rey]] and Cindy Wiesner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://keywiki.org/Linda_Burnham#Women_of_Color_Resource_Center|title=Linda Burnham - KeyWiki|website=keywiki.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-06}}</ref> Burnham served as its Executive Director for 18 years.<ref name="one">{{cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/linda-burnham/1-feminism|title=1% Feminism|date=29 August 2015|website=openDemocracy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/lindaburnham |title=Linda Burnham — She's Beautiful When She's Angry |publisher=Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref> It includes five objectives: Women's Human Rights, Popular Education, Welfare, Peace and Justice, and Sisters of Fire.
[[Linda Burnham]] served as executive director from 1990<ref>Doherty, Maggie. “Vanishing Acts:The Feminists Who Worked so Diligently They Were Forgotten.” The New Republic, October 1, 2020.
</ref> until December 2007, at which point Anisha Desai succeeded her. On February 26, 2010, the Women of Color Resource Center ceased operations.
==See also==
* [[Social justice feminism]]
== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/982 Women of Color Resource Center Records] [[Sophia Smith Collection]], Smith College Special Collections
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