WKKF joins UNESCO’s global forum on racism and discrimination
Carla Thompson Payton, vice president for program strategy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, spoke at UNESCO)s second annual Global Forum against Racism and ...
Racial Equity
The global well-being of children depends on tackling systemic racism
Carla Thompson Payton, vice president for program strategy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, spoke at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...
Community Engagement
This is community-led economic recovery: Images from southern Mexico
In spring 2022, the Museo Casa Montejo in Mérida, Yucatán, hosted an exhibit titled, “Community-led economic recovery,” with photos by Aurora Fernandez capturing ...
Health
How a marriage of traditional and modern midwifery is transforming lives in rural Mexico
Traditional midwives have supported Indigenous communities by delivering new life into the world for generations. The skills and information used by professional herbalists, ...
Health
Celebrating the International Day of the Midwife
On International Day of the Midwife, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation recognizes the value and expertise that midwives bring around the world and especially ...
As the climate changes, so do some funding models
After the launch of the initial response phase that followed Tropical Storm Cristobal, when locals helped neighbors meet urgent food and shelter needs, ...
Community Engagement
Tropical storm Cristóbal created a humanitarian nightmare in southeast Mexico
Weather doesn’t discriminate, but when tropical storm Cristóbal hit Mexico two weeks ago, it devastated some of the country’s most marginalized communities. Local ...
Health
In a pandemic, kids’ TV producers keep Indigenous Mexican voices in the conversation
In Mexico, Vientos Culturales is a Chiapas-based maker of a children’s television show developing several distinct COVID-19 informational videos in Spanish and ...
Community Engagement
Mexicans of African descent are being counted in historic 2020 Census
For the first time in Mexico’s history, the #2020CensusMx is asking people if they self-identify as Afro-Mexicans and Afro-descendants.
Jobs
Empowering women in Chiapas
In Chiapas, Mexico indigenous women are elevating their voices and becoming leaders for their families and their communities.
