“It has been crucial for me to contribute my academic training in intersectional theory to my husband’s platform,” she says. “My hope for the report was to bring awareness to the specific issues Stockton women were facing in order to celebrate them and ensure that, moving forward, policies and plans would have their specific needs in mind. I truly believe that when women are doing well in communities, the whole community will do well; similarly, if women are being denied resources, the whole community will suffer. The report has, thus far, led to the hiring of a director of gender equity, who is now in charge of translating the report into direct action.”