Agustín Rodríguez was a quiet, deeply religious man originally from El Salvador. He worked in a pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he had a rough job sawing the legs off of dead pigs. He spent most of his time with his wife, Angelita, whom he married a month after they met […]

At Wagner Foundation, one of our core beliefs is that investment in women starts a ripple effect of impact. The root causes that allow gender inequality to persist must be directly confronted in order to end them. This outlook is fundamental to the way in which we approach our grantmaking and the beginning of a […]