{"id":226960,"date":"2026-05-11T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:52:24","slug":"womankind-ceo-explains-how-organization-was-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226960\/","title":{"rendered":"Womankind CEO explains how organization was founded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Womankind CEO Yasmeen Hamza explains how the organization was founded \u2014 it was originally created to serve Asian domestic violence survivors \u2014 on this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s advocacy services offer a multilingual 24-hour helpline as the first point of contact for survivors, families and professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza said Womankind urges lawmakers to allocate resources for culturally specific groups.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Womankind CEO Yasmeen Hamza explains how the organization was founded \u2014 it was originally created to serve Asian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":["post-226960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-perez","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}