Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.

The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics.

This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025.

In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education,

health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how

the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends

at Way to Win for supporting us

and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get

your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. It's Ashanti, the host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics,

and today we're talking about the she session. To date, the COVID pandemic has caused the worst

global economic crisis we've seen since the Great Depression.

It's no surprise that women of color, especially our frontline and essential workers, were hit the hardest during this time.

With the slowdown of our economies and the increased vulnerability to COVID from working essential jobs, women of color are faring the

worse during this time. The fact is the she session didn't begin with the pandemic.

Women of color, particularly black women, have been notoriously underpaid and

divested from in the United States for countless years. In this episode, we're diving deep into the economic hardships women of color have endured.

Our first guest is Aijun Poo, co-founder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers' Alliance.

She will discuss the ways essential workers and domestic labor have changed during this time.

Our second guest is managing director and COO for global investment research at Goldman Sachs,

Giselle George Joseph.

She talks with us about Goldman Sachs' One Million Black Women Initiative and what it's

like when corporations make investments in the

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