Yamani Yansá Hernandez ’02
Community Empowerment through Design
Chief Executive Officer, Groundswell Fund

While at Human Ecology, Yamani created her own major, combining her interests in human service studies, policy analysis, design and environmental analysis to study socially responsible design with marginalized populations. She credits CHE’s community-engaged learning for launching her more than 25 year career in social justice and non-profits at the local, state, and national level.
 

Yamani leads and advocates for reproductive and gender justice through the Groundswell Fund, one of the largest funders of women of color-led organizing in the United States. Prior to Groundswell, she was the first Black executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds building cultural and political power to ensure access to reproductive justice.