Rut Curruchich

Outreach Coordinator

Women’s Justice Initiative

She is a Maya Kaqchikel feminist, popular educator and environmental activist. She has experience in food sovereignty and climate activism and gender justice advocacy in rural areas. Part of her role at WJI is to assist Community Advocates and program participants to become community leaders. She also leads other individual or collective actors to know and implement WJI’s methodology, ensuring that more women in rural communities achieve legal empowerment.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

19 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
10:30 am EEST	12:00 pm EEST	Hey Funders: Here’s What Young Feminist Leaders Need from You! Concurrent Room MH 2-1	What makes the difference between philanthropy that is pathbreaking for young feminist leaders and funding that creates yet more obstacles to meaningful change? Join us Read More What makes the difference between philanthropy that is pathbreaking for young feminist leaders and funding that creates yet more obstacles to meaningful change? Join us for a discussion of grantee-led, feminist, trust-based philanthropy. Hear directly from grassroots and local young feminist leaders fighting for gender and racial equality in the Global South, and learn what transformative, sustainable social change looks like for them. Join us for a dynamic discussion on the much-needed shifts in philanthropy and aid to support feminist organizing, programming, and the leadership of adolescent girls and young women, and learn about funders’ experiences implementing more trust-based, feminist models. Session format: Thought Leadership Organized by American Jewish World Service, Girls First Fund, WomenStrong International, Cellule Nigérienne des Jeunes Filles Leaders, Mujeres Sociopolíticas Mamá Tingó, Feminist Approach to Technology, Visionaria Peru, Women’s Justice Initiative Read Less Speakers Fanta Toure-Puri Fund Director Girls First Fund Sachini Perera Executive Coordinator Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ) Rut Curruchich Outreach Coordinator Women’s Justice Initiative Paola Saldivias Mendez Co-founder Visionaria Network of Peru Saratou Bako Bagassa Member, Leadership and Mentoring Camp Organization Committee Cellule Nigérienne Des Jeunes Filles Leaders (CNJFL) Rubi Rubi Management Committee member/Program Champion Feminist Approach to Technology Johanna Agustin Co-ordinator of Political Participation, responsible for Accounting/Finance Mujeres Socio Políticas Mama Tingo [Mama Tingo Socio-Political Women] Susan M. Blaustein Founder and Executive Director WomenStrong International Sarah Green Senior Policy Advisor, Sexual Health and Rights American Jewish World Service (AJWS)

Speakers

Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki

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Magdalene Dorto

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Deborah Nyirenda

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Yashmin Fernandes

Director Women's Digital Financial Inclusion Hub, Women's World Banking

Stella Anyangwe

End Polo Now Coordinator Rotary International

Blandine Umuziranenge

Founder and CEO Kosmotivr

Taryn Russell

Deputy Executive Director Results Canada

Djeinaba Kane

Advocacy & Partnership Lead AfricaNenda

Rafiat Akinokun

Youth Advorate and cub's health nurse

Melania Chiponda

Gender and Climate Advisor The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Aries Setiadi

Managing Director Fintech Association Indonesia

Claude Mambo Muvunyi

Director General Rwanda Biomedical Center

Hanna Lemma

Co-founder & Contributor Addis Powerhouse

Kathryn Toure

Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office IDRC

Dr. Lisa Avery

Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba; Director Africa Initiatives

Carmen Correa

CEO Pro Mujer

Tawakkol Karman

Nobel Peace Price Laureate Tawakkol Karman Foundation

Anis Farid

Research Project Manager Women's Aid Organisation

Patricia Elias

Every Woman International Lawyer; Chief, Global Diplomatic Campaign

Lipi Rahman

Executive Director, Badabon Sangho Every Woman Indrani Fellow

Kigali Convention Center - KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda

contact@wd2023-conference.org

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