Cherie Carter's Page

What issues are most important to you?

Gender equality, natural childbirth, social justice, enviromental protection

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

fundraising for individual organizations and providing support(financial - etc.) where needed.

What organizations do you love or work with?

Urban Sanctuary ( my nonprofit) NextAid - Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

Orgasmic Birth - The Business of Being Born - The Coat Hanger Project

Career: what do you do or want to do?

Birth Doula - Post Partum Doula - Freedom Fighter

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

I am a Reiki Practioner - I run my own Nonprofit - Urban Sanctuary - currently I am fundraising to help build sustainable homes for AIDS orphans in South Africa. Also, I am involved in fundraising for emergency relief to Haiti.

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

I would like everyone to know that I embrace the fact that I am an ever evolving creature. I want to help where help is needed. I want men and women to learn to coexist in a peaceful. loving manner. I want a bright future for all children regardless of their socio-economic status.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

I don't think I had just one Ah Ha moment. It has been a momentum that has been growing consistently. My greatest motivating factor is my mission is to raise a confident - empowered - strong woman ( I have a thirteen year old daughter).