Adriann Barboa

Money raised from the event will help pay for group members to attend a youth organizing training conference in Seattle, said Adriann Barboa, the group's community organizer and development coordinator.

Adriann Barboa, the development coordinator and community organizer of Young Women United, can speak to that: "We're an organizing project, not a service-providing organization," she says of the YWU, which organizes women of color in Albuquerque and has just two employees.

Adriann Barboa, 29 Sex Educator

Adriann BarboaOrganizer/Community Leader at Young Women United

Contact: Adriann Barboa, Development Coordinator, P.O. Box 8490, Albuquerque, NM 87198, (505) 831-8930

ADRIANN BARBOA, Case Manager.Adriann has two children.

Adriann Barboa is a native New Mexican, born and raised in Albuquerque. She is a single mom with two kids, and is the Community Organizer and Development Coordinator of Young Women United (YWU). YWU is a social justice organization focused on changing the relations of power in Albuquerque by amplifying the voice and needs of young women of color. Adriann brings skills in fundraising, administration and organizing. Previously she worked in the youth development field as a Case Manager for Juvenile Community Corrections at Youth Development Inc. She has also worked at a transitional living center for homeless youth. Adriann holds a BA in Sociology from the University of New Mexico. Adriann is the NOA chair for 2009.

Attica Scott is Coordinator of Kentucky Jobs With Justice and Adjunct Faculty at Bellarmine University. She provides leadership to a number of non-profit Boards including NOA, Hispanic-Latino Coalition and the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Kentucky. Attica holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from historically Black Knoxville College and a graduate degree in Communications from the University of Tennessee. She is a certified anti-racism trainer through Crossroads Ministry and the Commission on Religion in Appalachia and is the mother of Advocate and Ashanti.

Sexually active students "are not receiving information to protect themselves" in abstinence-only lessons, said Adriann Barboa, a community organizer and development coordinator for Young Women United.

"`Just say no' doesn't work," she said.