General Info

About Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment ( WISE ), Inc. was founded by a group of multi-cultural/national, first-generation immigrant women in 1995 as a vehicle for social, economic and leadership empowerment of Asian, African, and Latina women and girls. Over the past decade, WISE has implemented a number of community-based initiatives aimed at raising consciousness of immigrant issues, developing leadership capacities and promoting self sufficiency of immigrant and refugee women and girls.