International Women's Day & Yazidis after the Trauma
During the week of March 15th the Middle East Center co-organized two fantastic events with our partners at the South Asia Center. “International Women’s Day 2016: Global Perspectives on Women, Food Security and Agriculture,” was a great success with 130 guests in attendance. The audience enjoyed a dynamic panel that explored the importance of women in agriculture around the world. Panelists included: Betsy Teutsch, author of 100 Under $100: 100 Tools for Empowering Global Women, Kirtrina M. Baxter, Community Organizer for Garden Justice Legal Initiative and Katera Y. Moore, Ph.D., Urban Geographer focusing on sustainability and agriculture at Penn’s Netter Center.
Our second event on March 17th, “The Yazidis After the Trauma,” featured a lecture by Pulitzer journalist Emily Feldman that focused on her reporting work on Yazidi recovery after attempted genocide by ISIS militants. Her talk was followed by presentations from our 2015 Pulizer Reporting Fellows Priya Ramchandra and Farzana Shah who detailed their reporting stories and experiences as fellows of the program. Click on our their names to read their stories. If you would like to learn more about becoming a Pulitzer Reporting Fellow, click here.