Ep 01: Zakiya Thomas & the ERA Coalition Movement of Millions

Equality Talks: The Official ERA Podcast

Meet Zakiya Thomas, CEO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality. Host Elisa Parker speaks with Thomas about the movement of millions for sex equality. Learn how this coalition has unified 290 leaders along with their organizations to represent over 80 million champions for equality and ensure that after 100 years in the making, the ERA will be published as the 28th amedment in the United States of America constituion.

Thomas says, “We are here to change the conversation. The launch of this podcast highlights a shift in the equality movement; we’re no longer being told our stories back to us, we’re telling them ourselves. And we’re lifting up the people and communities that are so often marginalized by misogyny, racism, classism, and bigotry in our society. We’re showcasing our movement of movements, representing millions, and advocating for equality for all people at all levels. And we won’t stop until we get there together.”

Hosted by nationally acclaimed radio host and Equal Voices Elisa Parker, Equality Talks bridges the intersections of equality, justice, and social activism to unify as a collective and change the status quo.

Equality Talks focuses on the key facets of equality across all communities, including everything from gender, racial, economic and reproductive justice, to labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ rights. Programming for the month of June highlights Generation Ratify speaking about the youth movement for the Equal Rights Amendment, advocates supporting LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and members of the Congressional ERA Caucus speaking about Juneteenth.1

The program is also supported in part with Vox Pod studio and Coalition media partner, Women’s eNews, who is launching an ERA segment on their media hub to highlight Equality Talks stories and other Equal Voice | Equal Future content.

Equality Talks officially launches on Thursday, June 1 on www.ERACoaltion.org and www.EqualVoice.org.

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The ERA Coalition was founded in 2014 to bring concerted, organized action to the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA Coalition has a sister organization, the Fund for Women’s Equality, which promotes public education and outreach on the need for constitutional equality. Composed of more than 290 organizations across the country representing millions of people, the Coalition is a movement of movements focused on overall equality in the United States.

While the effort to amend the constitution to include sex equality began nearly a century ago, our renewed efforts are centered on women of color (African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latina, and Native American), gender-nonconforming and transgender women and girls, and nonbinary people – those who are most impacted by systemic inequities.

www.eracoalition.org | www.fundforwomensequality.org