Katrina's Dream

Katrina's Dream Katrina’s Dream is the Full Inclusion of Women in the Church and in Society and other Social Justice Issues. Founded in the memory of the Rev.

Katrina Martha Van Alstyne Welles Swanson on the eve of her death when Hurricane Katrina (a hurricane bearing her name) hit the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, shedding light on injustice here in America. One of the “Philadelphia Eleven,” Katrina and her father helped organize the 1974 irregular ordination of the first eleven women priests in The Episcopal Church USA. Katrina’s seventeen-y

ear bi-lingual ministry as rector of St. John’s Parish in Union City, New Jersey, was an uphill struggle filled with love. She celebrated the Eucharist bilingually in Spanish and English and founded and led a bilingual afterschool program for over a hundred children ages 5 to 18. She served on the board of a hospital and a homeless shelter. Katrina retired to Manset, Maine in 1996. After being diagnosed with inoperable colonic cancer Katrina was cared for by hospice team at home in Manset during her sixteen-month illness. She looked forward to the other side of death. Katrina’s Dream utilizes a website featuring news, commentary, art, poetry, and social media. It is an effort to draw more deeply into exploring their beliefs and reflect upon contemporary life in a context informed by faith. Giving visibility and respect to women’s perspectives and actions in the work and struggle for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.

NYC winter can’t freeze the fire for   & world peace! ✨ From UN youth chats to sidewalk kindness & family hope—I’m overf...
01/20/2026

NYC winter can’t freeze the fire for & world peace! ✨ From UN youth chats to sidewalk kindness & family hope—I’m overflowing with faith in the emerging Board of Peace under President Trump. A brighter horizon awaits! 🌍✌️
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Inspiring Encounters: The Equal Rights Amendment and The Board of Peace January 18, 2026 Dear Friends and Family, The city is plunged deep into winter now, but the work on the corner at 72nd and Broadway keeps drawing me out into the cold each day. There’s something about it that keeps the heart a...

As SCOTUS hears West Virginia v. B.P.J. today, biological women’s sports fairness hangs in the balance. Title IX isn’t e...
01/14/2026

As SCOTUS hears West Virginia v. B.P.J. today, biological women’s sports fairness hangs in the balance. Title IX isn’t enough—only the in the Constitution can protect sex-based equity permanently!
Urge Sen. Murkowski to champion S.J. Res. 38 NOW. Sign/share: https://c.org/4rq5TmMqLP
Read: https://www.katrinasdream.org/dreamscape/why-passing-the-era-now-is-essential-to-protect-womens-rights-in-sports/

Why Passing the ERA Now Is Essential to Protect Women’s Rights in Sports January 13, 2025 Dear Friends and Family, Today our petition calling our Senator Murkowski to step up and protect women, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and the related Little v. H...

As we ring in 2026, let’s make equality constitutional! Join the wave–sign the   petition, call Sen. Murkowski, & donate...
01/01/2026

As we ring in 2026, let’s make equality constitutional! Join the wave–sign the petition, call Sen. Murkowski, & donate to ignite change. It’s time for the Equal Rights Amendment. 💪✨
Read my NYE letter: https://www.katrinasdream.org/dreamscape/a-new-years-resolution-worth-keeping-enshrine-equality-in-the-constitution/

A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping: Enshrine Equality in the Constitution December 31, 2025 Dear Family and Friends, As I sit here sharing stories with locals and tourist alike here at Verdi Square on New Year’s Eve Day 2025, reflecting on the year gone by and the one ahead I’m not thinking...

…”This past week I got creative. I have been doing something that feels remarkably close to what Jane Goodall did in Gom...
11/19/2025

…”This past week I got creative. I have been doing something that feels remarkably close to what Jane Goodall did in Gombe: I moved into the middle of the herd, sat on the corner, flew a sign, handed out our postcards to the President calling for his support (the same ones we mailed in 2012 when Obama was President), collected petition signatures, and gave my business cards to those I engaged in conversation. Slowly, the women who live on the margins decided I was safe enough to approach. I now call this particular strategy of building a groundswell for the White House petition and the Power of 10 call-to-action to pass the ERA in the concrete jungle the “Jane Goodall Approach.””

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Going Jane Goodall: Taking the ERA to the Mean Streets of NYC November 19, 2025 Dear Friends and Family, Since Amazon unlawfully terminated me in retaliation for filing an FTC complaint, pushing to reopen my OSHA case, reaching out to the New York State Attorney General’s office, and now appealing...

Our take on the potential of the Tic Toc deal.
10/30/2025

Our take on the potential of the Tic Toc deal.

Chaos to Cosmos: The ERA, The TikTok Deal, and The Sovereign Wealth Fund

10/26/2025

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” Words have power, and together we can write a new chapter for equality. Join the movement to pass the Equal Rights Amendment and make a difference. katrinasdream.eo.page/gvbzt "

For DJ, from Western High School, a 16 year old trafficed to Vegas, never knowing her parents and ran the front desk of ...
10/19/2025

For DJ, from Western High School, a 16 year old trafficed to Vegas, never knowing her parents and ran the front desk of the Moulin Rouge and for a whole two weeks was allowed for the first and only time to go to school (she dreamt of going to university thr only of schooling was from TV. And for Steve the young male prostitue who lived with an alcoholic, father crippled in a car accident whom I counselled at Focus Youth Group as part of my studies of drugs and their effects and the law and the congressional report which allowed for the CIA to go deep in to South America and creat havens for activies to develop a supply chain.

I never forgot you goys. I did not know these things existed. You changed my life.

My Journey Through the P**o [sic] Portland Frog Phenomenon: A Call to Action for “Take It Down” and the ERA

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