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Dear John,
As the president and CEO of a global reproductive justice organization, it’s my job to tackle the patriarchy head-on—to fight the racist, sexist and colonialist policies and practices that deny women and girls the right to safe, high-quality abortion and contraceptive care. But in the last year, I’ve also started looking inward at how to “decolonize” Ipas itself.
I believe post-coloniality is a journey—one that the global health field has just begun. I’m proud to share that last year at Ipas, we began our own multi-year journey to shift power within our organization. We’re calling it the Ipas Road Map, and it’s a plan to transform Ipas into a networked global organization with authority, power and leadership dispersed and shared across a network of offices, rather than centralized in the U.S.
I just wrote a blog post titled “Shaping a post-colonial INGO” to explain the changes we’re making. I invite you to read it and learn more about this very exciting shift in the way we work to achieve Ipas’s mission.
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