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Acknowledgments

The California Women’s Well-Being Index is a project of the California Budget & Policy Center.

Kristin Schumacher, Senior Policy Analyst at the California Budget & Policy Center prepared the 2020 Women’s Well-Being Index with assistance from Monica Davalos, Aureo Mesquita, and other Budget Center staff. GreenInfo Network developed the data visualization and the downloadable county fact sheets and indicator fact sheets.

We are thankful to a number of individuals who have contributed to earlier work on the Women’s Well-Being Index.

In late 2017 and early 2018 a number of individuals shared their thoughts on policies to boost women’s economic security, employment, and earnings. These individuals helped to shape policy recommendations for women related to work supports, boosting income, building wealth, and improving programs and services that benefit women with low-incomes in California. (Organizational affiliation reflects position at time of interview.)

  • Fatima Alleyne, Black Women Organized for Political Action
  • Jasmine Amons, Program Associate, National Center for Youth Law, Women’s Policy Institute Fellow
  • Graciela Aponte-Diaz, Director of California Policy, Center for Responsible Lending
  • Sarah Arce, Senior Policy Director, The Campaign for College Opportunity
  • Elizabeth Ayala, Senior Program Associate, The Women’s Foundation of California
  • Barbara Baran, Co-Director, California EDGE Campaign
  • Alexandra Bastien, Senior Associate, Policy Link
  • Sarah Bohn, Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
  • Christa Brown, Manager, Financial Justice Project, City and County of San Francisco
  • Lewis Brown, Jr., Senior Associate, Policy Link
  • Tyrone Buckley, Policy Director, Housing California
  • Maggie Cervantes, Executive Director, New Economics for Women
  • Elena Chávez Quezada, Senior Program Officer, Walter & Elise Hass Fund
  • Judy Darnell, Vice President of Public Policy United Ways of California
  • Melany de la Cruz-Viesca, Assistance Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
  • Rachel Deutsch, Supervising for Worker Justice, Center for Popular Democracy
  • Jodi Doane, Grants & Community Relations Manager, JVS SoCal, Women’s Policy Institute Fellow
  • Rosalyn Epstein, Financial Empowerment Program Manager, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
  • Tania Flores, Senior Program Associate, The Women’s Foundation of California
  • Michelle Freridge, Executive Director, Asian Youth Center
  • Emily Gordon, Director of Strategic Research, Center for Popular Democracy
  • Sabrina Hamm, Statewide Managing Director, California Asset Building Coalition
  • Katie Hern, Co-Founder, California Acceleration Project
  • Hilary Hoynes, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley
  • Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organizer, Parent Voices
  • Jennifer Ito, Research Director, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE)
  • LaNiece Jones, Executive Director, Black Women Organized for Political Action
  • Tatiana Larkin, Black Women Organized for Political Action
  • Anya Lawler, Policy Advocate, Western Center on Law & Poverty
  • Pete Manzo, President & CEO, United Ways of California
  • Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Income Security, National Women’s Law Center
  • Heather McCulloch, Founder and Director, Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap
  • Krista Niemczyk, Public Policy Manager, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
  • Marj Plumb, Chief Strategist, Policy Advocacy and Training, The Women’s Foundation of California
  • Anne Price, President, Insight Center
  • Patti Prunhuber, Senior Policy Attorney, Child Care Law Center
  • Katie Selenski, Executive Director, CalSavers (Formerly Secure Choice)
  • Donna Sneeringer, Director of Government Relations, Child Care Resource Center
  • Jessica Stender, Senior Counsel, Workplace Justice & Public Policy, Equal Rights Advocates
  • Marisabel Torres, Senior Policy Analyst, UnidosUS
  • Julie Vogtman, Director of Job Quality and Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
  • Lisa Williams, Black Women Organized for Political Action

In addition, individuals who responded to our survey in summer 2015 on selecting indicators were instrumental in guiding the development of the initial version of the California Women’s Well-Being Index. (Organizational affiliation reflects position at time of survey.)

  • Dion Aroner, Partner, Aroner, Jewel and Ellis Partners
  • Marisol Aviña, Program Manager, The California Endowment
  • Barbara Baran, Co-Director, California EDGE Coalition
  • Jessica Bartholow, Legislative Advocate, Western Center on Law & Poverty
  • Rebecca Hamburg Cappy, Director, Northern California Office, Alliance for Justice
  • Krystle Contreras, Director of Outreach and Prevention, Central California Family Crisis Center
  • Betsy Cotton, Director, Close the Gap CA
  • Sarah Crow, Vice President, The Opportunity Institute
  • Cynthia Douglas, California Department of Social Services
  • Myra Duran, Policy Manager, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
  • Stephanie Fajuri, Supervising Attorney, Disability Rights Legal Center – Cancer Legal Resource Center
  • Sequoia Hall, Leadership Council Member, East Oakland Building Health Communities
  • Marlene Christine Hurd, Human Resources Manager, Administrator, Healthy Communities Inc. dba Healthy Oakland
  • Jennifer Ito, Project Manager, University of Southern California, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
  • Kate Karpilow, Executive Director, California Center for Research on Women & Families
  • Kimberly Kenny, Associate Vice President, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles
  • Mari Lopez, Policy Director, Vision y Compromiso
  • Linda Meric, Executive Director, 9to5, National Association of Working Women
  • Ami Nagle, President, Nagle & Associates
  • Nikki Newsome, Program Manager, Reading and Beyond
  • Vanessa Perez, Civic Engagement Specialist, Time for Change Foundation
  • Mary L. Perry, Education Consultant
  • Vonya Quarles, Executive Director, Starting Over, Inc.
  • Maria Reyes, Bilingual Legal Services Specialist, YWCA Silicon Valley
  • Gabriela Sandoval, Director of Research and Chief Economic Security Officer, Insight Center for Community Economic Development
  • Diana Scott, Chief Human Resources Officer, Prologis
  • Laura Segura, Executive Director, Monarch Services, Santa Cruz County
  • Hillary Selvin, Executive Director, National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles
  • Cathy Senderling-McDonald, Deputy Executive Director, California Welfare Directors Association
  • Ann Stevens, Director, Center for Poverty Research, University of California, Davis
  • Nancy Strohl, Consultant, Office of Senator Holly J. Mitchell
  • Anne Stuhldreher, Senior Program Manager, The California Endowment
  • Jesse Torrey, Associate Director, RISE San Luis Obispo County
  • Francesca Vietor, Program Director, Environment, Public Policy, Civic Engagement, The San Francisco Foundation
  • Nancy Volpert, Director of Public Policy, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
  • Heather Warnken, Legal Policy Associate, Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
  • Deborah Peterson Small, Executive Director, Break the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs
  • Nicole D. Vick, Senior Health Educator, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
  • Pete Woiwode, Director, California Partnership