WWIAAL with DJ Gatsby & Guest Vanessa Green of #BlackLivesMatter

Vanessa Green is the Senior Supervisor of the VCS Domestic Violence Program for Men, a New York Model Batterer Program. Vanessa is also the Racial Justice Organizer and is an organizer of all anti-oppression work of the VCS Community Change Project, including VCS Pride, their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender initiative. 
Before VCS in 2001, Vanessa began her anti-violence work as the Director of the Rape Crisis Program in Orange County, NY. In her capacity as Racial Justice Organizer, Vanessa, organizes to bring the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism Workshop annually to Rockland County. Vanessa works tirelessly on building a movement to undo structural racism in our lifetime and to bring an analysis of structural racism as outlined by the People's Institute to Rockland and Orange County communities. 

Vanessa is widely recognized in New York State as an activist in the fight to end men’s violence against women. In 2005, she participated in a documentary by Dr. Chyng Feng Sun from Columbia University on ography and its impact on women. In addition, Vanessa’s article, “The Impact of ography on Women” was published and shared widely. Her specific interests revolve around Human’s rights, women’s rights and sexuality, and race and identity politics concerning diaspora’d peoples. 

While organizing to end racial injustice in Rockland and Orange Counties, Vanessa took a Freedom Ride to Ferguson in August 2014 where she spent time organizing with Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac and 600-plus members from Black Lives Matters from across the country and Canada.

She is Co-chair of Black Lives Matter Rockland-Orange, organizing in those two counties around issues of White Supremacy. She joined the Board of Black Women's Blueprint in 2015 and is acting Treasurer.