Since our founding, we've...

• Presented celebrations honoring the life and work of Audre Lorde

• We've given away 70 $1000 scholarships to out black lesbians enrolled in colleges in the Southeast.

• Published a bi-monthly newsletter

• Hosted Black Lesbian writers and musicians:
  Shirleen Holmes
  doris davenport
  Terri Jewel
  Catherine E. McKinley
  Penny Mickelbury
  Lisa Moore
  Kathleen Morris
  The Shirley
  Linda Villarosa
  Evelyn C. White
  Shay Youngblood
  Donna Rose
  Letta Neely
  CC Carter
  Wanda Jeanne
  Sharon Bridgforth
  Robin G. White
  Nikky Finney
  Doria Roberts
  

• Premiered the works of Black lesbian artists in Atlanta:
  Video activist Jocelyn Taylor
  Filmmakers Michelle Parkerson and Ada Gay Griffin

• Co-sponsored important events:
  • The Atlanta Premiere of A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
  • Annual Bayard Rustin rally
  • Mab Segrest, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Suzanne Pharr reading with Southerns on New Ground (SONG)
  • The first lesbian and gay Black History Celebration at Spelman College
  • Conducted a weekend retreat on internalized homophobia with funding from the Fund for Southern Communities
  • Organized a reading on the work of Pat Parker ,black lesbian feminist poet in conjunction with Charis Books and More, Atlanta Lesbian Cancer Initiative, and the First Existentalist Congregation

• Conducted Atlanta University Center Outreach Program and Scholarship and Community Outreach

  Because of ZAMI's demonstrated commitment to leadership development of young women, since 1997, we have been awarded three grants by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to conduct an outreach program for lesbians and bisexual women in the Atlanta University Center and to provide general support to administer the Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund. Beginning in Feburary 2001, Zami also sponsors four monthly support groups, each of which meet at the YouthPride Center in Decatur.