Weaving Hope Into Action: Eunice Brownlee
Policy Advocate Eunice Brownlee Knows the Power of A Unified Voice
For Sharing Her Brave Story to Create Safety for All Women, Eunice Won Our Inaugural Mountain Mover Award
Eunice bravely shared her own experience with gender-based violence in support of HB25-1168 during the 2025 legislative session. Her voice, amplified by The Women’s Foundation of Colorado, helped legislators understand the barriers she faced when seeking safety.
What has it meant to have The Women’s Foundation of Colorado alongside you in this work?
Over the past few years of getting into policy work, my biggest lesson has been understanding how important building coalitions are. We can’t discount how much more powerful we are when we become a unified voice in supporting the causes we care about.
Having The Women’s Foundation of Colorado as part of the team working to pass HB25-1168 – Housing Protections for Victim-Survivors of Gender-Based Violence – was critical. Having an organization as big as WFCO backing you is like being handed the world’s biggest megaphone, and when you realize the power of your own voice, you become unstoppable.
Doing this work can be challenging. What keeps you motivated or gives you hope when things get tough?
It can be challenging and exhausting, but it can also be incredibly fun. One of the things that keeps me going is to remember that I’m doing this work so that we can live in a world that I believe is possible—one filled with joy, hope, and love. When things get hard, I can be motivated to keep going by first remembering why we’re in it. But also deep rest. You can’t do this work when you’re depleted. The other important piece of coalition building is being able to tag out and rest and knowing that someone else is there to tag in and keep the momentum going.
