The Red Umbrella Project is a New York based non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of sex workers and strives to empower them by giving them a voice.
[1] In 2009 Ray started hosting storytelling events for sex workers at the Happy Ending Lounge on New York's Lower East Side.
[2] The Red Umbrella Diaries started as a monthly story-telling event at the Happy Ending Lounge on New York's Lower East Side that sought to shed the stigma around sex work, make it less isolating and show that it can be both exploitative and empowering" at the same time.
[14] The monthly event eventually led to a documentary produced by Audacia Ray and multi-Emmy Award-Winning director David Kornfield and funded by the Red Umbrella Project.
[15] In 2012, the Red Umbrella Project started offering memoir writing workshops in New York City which was made possible in part by a grant from Poets & Writers.