Mission

The Radical Alliance for Gender Equity (RAGE) at Heinz works to provide support to anyone who self-identifies as experiencing gender bias, including women, non-binary, and trans students. We are a community that seeks to navigate gender-based discrimination via academic, professional, and social development. RAGE at Heinz aims to create a safe space for people of marginalized genders while advocating for gender equity within the Heinz community.

Values

  • Empowerment: We believe in empowering women, trans, and nonbinary people to make our own choices, take back control over our lives, develop a strong sense of self-worth, have equitable access to opportunities and resources, and influence social change.
  • Community: We believe in building power for women, trans, and nonbinary people through an open-minded, inclusive community in which we lift each other up, learn and grow from each other's lived experiences, and stand together to fight injustice.
  • Support (safety, security): We believe that in the context of a world that is often uncomfortable, if not outright dangerous for women, trans, and nonbinary people, our community should provide a sense of safety, security and support to all our members.
  • Advocacy: We believe that in the movement for gender equity, we all have a role to play in pushing for stronger policies that protect the rights of women, trans, and nonbinary people. Among other important issues, we support the right to an abortion; equitable access to healthcare, education, employment and other opportunities; closing the gender wage gap; eliminating sexual harassment and violence; trans rights including access to gender confirmation healthcare; and giving women, trans, and nonbinary people equal representation in positions of elected power.

Vision

Graduating gender expansive people from Heinz College will have developed skills and strengths that they can apply to their careers and personal lives, a strong sense of community with each other, and resources to combat gender-based discrimination in academia and the workplace.