What can you do?

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Lu Ortiz (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Lu Ortiz (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Lu is a gender equality champion, mental health advocate, social designer, and a non-violent political action specialist. She’s based in New Jersey in the United States, where she works with Vita-Activa.org.

What can be done?

Empathy and social justice can dominate internet spaces if monetization and profit are not the guiding principles driving it. We need to bring back to center stage the ways our internet communities connect, interact, support, and collaborate.

Lu Ortiz
Latin America

What happened?

An alarming escalation of online violence against girls and women took place across more than 20 countries, mostly over Facebook, according to Plan International.

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Chicas Poderosas launched the first Spanish-language Massive Open Online Courses of its kind devoted to the development of leadership skills in newsrooms — and media in general — for women.

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