Nadia Gooray
Director of Equity and External Affairs
Nadia Gooray is the Director of Equity and External Affairs at YWCA Richmond, an organization whose mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. Nadia is dedicated to building relationships, centering justice, and working alongside others to together build the tools for personal and collective healing. At YWCA Richmond, she is focused on strengthening four main initiatives: community education on issues of racial and gender equity, internal equity work, targeted community-centered outreach, and coalition building.
Nadia specifically leads the team to build outreach approaches that focus on genuine trust building as the foundation for forging authentic, collaborative relationships with community members to address complex challenges.
Nadia brings over 10 years of experience in community outreach and education, authentic community relationship building, the integration of equity within organizational practices, and developing trauma-informed mindfulness programs for intersecting identities and communities.
Welcome To Washington D.C.
National Conference isn’t about YWCA USA, it’s about our broad network of local YWCA associations that implement the work at the local level for women, families, and people of color every day. It’s a time for our Local Associations to share, as a community of learning, and to walk away inspired by each other and the work of the YWCA family. It is a time for the YWCA movement, united as One YWCA, to share and celebrate our history, our mission and impact, planning for the work ahead, and continuing to write our YWCA story.