Engaging with Feminist Leadership: A Personal Journey with Srilatha Batliwala
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
9:30am Atlantic Daylight Time (Halifax, Canada)
Join us as we launch the Feminist Leadership Speaker Series celebrating the 10th anniversary of Coady Institute’s International Centre for Women’s Leadership.
Srilatha Batliwala is the series’ first speaker and she is a long-time women’s rights advocate. Srilatha is Scholar Associate with the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), co-chairs the board of Gender at Work, and serves as a board member of SPARC Samudaya Nirman Sahayak and IT for Change. She focuses on concepts and practices of feminist movement-building, women’s transformative leadership, gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building and mentoring of young women activists.
Srilatha lives and works from her home in Bangalore. She is married, with two married children and four grandchildren.
Moderator: Sarika Sinha, Program Staff, Coady Institute, Feminist activist and scholar
Remarks: Eileen Alma, Director, International Centre for Women’s Leadership, Coady Institute