Community Voices Heard

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a member-led, multi-racial organization principally comprised of women of color and low-income families in New York State. CVH tackles tough issues and builds power to secure racial, social and economic justice for all New Yorkers. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, policy changes, and creating new models of direct democracy CVH is creating a truly equitable New York State. We are working to build a society in which the systems that govern foster racial, social and economic justice not exploitation particularly for low-income people of color. We seek a society in which all people regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, age, gender expression, sexual identity, citizen status, primary language, and ability are treated with mutual respect and when privileges of one group do not exist. We seek a society in which all people are able to work with dignity, have access to a sustainable quality of life, and can obtain unconditi...