Rise Up Together's Evening of Impact
Meaningful change starts with people who know their communities, understand the challenges they face, and have the vision and determination to build a better future.
On March 3, 2027, Rise Up Together's Evening of Impact returns to San Francisco for a special evening at Greens Restaurant. We'll gather with our community of supporters, partners, and friends to hear firsthand from inspiring local leaders, celebrate the impact of their work, and explore what's possible when we come together to invest in a more equitable future for women, girls and gender-nonconforming people.
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Our Evening of Impact Speaker
Amika Mota
Rise Up Leader, California
Amika Mota is the Senior Vice President of Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC), where she leads strategy, vision, and movement-building rooted in the leadership of formerly incarcerated women and trans people. A nationally respected movement strategist and formerly incarcerated leader, Amika has spent more than two decades turning lived experience into policy change, coalition power, and community-led solutions.
Amika began organizing as a teen mother and midwife, and during her own incarceration, advocated alongside women inside as a jailhouse lawyer, paralegal, firefighter, and mentor. She previously served as Policy Director at YWFC and Executive Director of Sister Warriors, helping advance major legislative campaigns, grassroots organizing, political education, and electoral power for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and gender-expansive people.
As Senior Vice President, Amika continues to oversee Sister Warriors and its C4 work, strengthening the connection between YWFC’s site-based leadership development and Sister Warriors’ chapter-based organizing, policy advocacy, and electoral strategy. She is a 2026 Galaxy Leader Fellow and an active public voice on incarceration, gender justice, reproductive justice, and youth justice.
"Rise Up Together’s investment came early in our journey, and that timing was everything. Rise Up Together gave us the foundation to build a truly survivor-led policy movement from the ground up." — Amika Mota
Learn more about Amika's story here.
