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North Carolina has always been home to Sadonna Gunder who attended college at UNCW where she double majored in Creative Writing and nglish. Sadonna currently works as an Editorial Assistant for a company that specializes in standardized tests. She began volunteering with InStepp in May 2019 as a monthly blog writer.  Read more. …Read More >

Violence against women and women’s subordination are not simply problems of the home and family. The prevalence of violence against women can be a predictor of a national predilection toward terrorism and civil conflict within a country.  Click here to read the full opinion article in the New York Times by Valerie M. Hudson. …Read More >

Ivette Kerr  was born and raised in Panama City, Republic of Panama, in Central America. For the past 20 years, she has lived in Raleigh with her adult daughters and  grand-dog, Chappie.  Ivette is currently the Director of Latina Services at InStepp, Inc.  Read more. …Read More >

A new approach of evaluating vascular function earlier in women, starting in middle age before arterial damage becomes severe, has been proposed by Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with international investigators. Read the article here by MayoClinic.org. …Read More >

Effective January 24th, consular officials now have the authority to deny a visitor visa if they have reason to believe the applicant intends to travel to the U.S. for the “primary purpose” of giving birth.  Read the article here by Michael Herrera in Ms. Magazine …Read More >

Women are the fastest growing prison population in the United States. Other than constituting yet another indication of how deeply flawed the American criminal justice system is, this fact has brought to light the incompetence of federal and private prisons in providing female inmates (particularly pregnant ones) proper medical care and protection from the rampant physical …Read More >