Ana Rodriguez-Knutsen

Content Specialist
Ana Rodriguez-Knutsen is the Content Specialist for YWCA’s Marketing & Editorial team. She believes empathy, education, and communication are key to creating a kinder world, and this belief is at the heart of everything she does.

Ana graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality. Her goal has always been to inspire curiosity and creativity in other people while simultaneously advocating for underrepresented communities.

Ana works hard to make information more accessible to a wider range of people and communities, because knowledge should be available to everyone.

In her free time, Ana enjoys cooking, reading comic books, watching cartoons, trying new restaurants, and giving impromptu lectures about mythology and marine science.

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Stand Against Environmental Racism with YWCA
YWCA
Our Stand Against Racism event helps raise awareness about systematic and structural racism and helps us build a community in the fight for equity more
Flying Colors: Helping Women Through Compassion and Quilting
YWCA
For almost 30 years, this local Seattle quilting group has created more than 5,000 beautiful handmade quilts for women in domestic violence shelters more
What is Intersectionality, and why does it matter?
YWCA
At YWCA, we know there is no racial justice without gender justice, and no gender justice without racial justice. It's important to recognize more
Types of Racism: Internal, Interpersonal, Institutional, and Structural
YWCA
Racism can take many forms, but not all forms are immediately recognizable. By understanding the different ways racism can manifest, we can more
The Lack of BIPOC Women in STEM
YWCA
Despite the STEM field's explosive growth, its workforce lacks equitable representation. We spoke with YWCA's Femme2STEM Program Manager more
Why BIPOC women receive unequal health care
YWCA
Although medical professionals are meant to treat all patients equally and with respect, there are intrinsically racist elements to the healthcare more
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Ana Rodriguez-Knutsen is the Content Specialist for YWCA's Marketing & Editorial team. From fiction writing to advocacy, Ana works with an intersectional mindset to uplift and amplify the voices of underrepresented communities.

Email
arknutsen@ywcaworks.org
Staff Type
Blogger