Mission

How do we do it:

• Building and strengthening our membership, being an organization made by and for our community.
• Supporting personal and collective transformation: healing, resilience, and empowerment.
• Fighting injustice and increasing the power of our community.
• Promoting movements that strengthen our collective power.
• Maintaining a healthy and strong organization.

Our Vision

Collectively, MUA aims to realize the following vision.

Social and Economic

• We value and respect all women's work, both paid and unpaid.
• We seek fair wages and safe working conditions for all immigrant workers, especially women.
• We work to eliminate domestic violence, war, and other abuses of power.
• We want a fair economic and political system, both locally and globally, that allows everyone to live with dignity without having to leave their country.
• We defend freedom of movement, fair immigration laws, and recognition of immigrants' contributions.

Families and Communities 

• We strengthen immigrant families so that parents and children have healthy relationships and children grow up safe and confident.
• We promote solidarity among races, cultures, and immigration statuses, recognizing that unity increases the power of all.

Staff

• We work to ensure that every woman lives with respect, dignity, and self-determination.
• We fight for access to quality services in health, education, housing and employment.
• We celebrate our cultures and languages ​​and are proud to be immigrants.

Our Values

Respect for the differences, needs, beliefs and aspirations of each person, with a commitment to equity and inclusion. Respect requires understanding, honest and direct communication to build a harmonious and impactful organization. We fight so that each being and our Mother Earth is respected, understanding that we are all interconnected.  

Solidarity and Compassion with every being that suffers from injustice. Together, with mutual support, we heal and grow our power. We are interdependent, we see diversity as a collective force and we engage in a common struggle to create a community within and outside of MUA that reflects the world we envision.

Learning is key to flourishing as people and as an organization. We continually reflect and evaluate how we can advance towards our goals. We are interested in freeing ourselves from oppressive ideas, and we seek to cultivate practices dedicated to our individual and collective healing and well-being.

Transparency about our organization's resources with membership, allies and staff is essential to achieving trust and a shared vision about organizational goals.  

Self-Determination allows each woman to make decisions for herself; live free of violence and discrimination; and have access to a broad level of opportunities during the different stages of her life, to achieve economic security, health and integrity for herself and her family.

Collective Power means that each woman has power, and that together we have even more power to bring about change. Collective power depends on the empowerment of each individual, and the empowerment of each individual is strengthened by being part of a supportive community.

Our leadership, which consists of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women, must be at the center of our fight and organizing. Our experience, voice, example and wisdom lead us to the best solutions to combat the oppression we have experienced and to sustain a strong organization. Being part of our leadership requires integrity, honesty, responsibility and practicing these values ​​day in and day out.