On April 4, 2024, the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program with the Gender & Women's Studies Department hosted a panel “Formal Politics & Changes from Within” as a part of the Conference on "Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s).
The conference was organized by graduate students from WGGP and GWS: Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez (Sociology), Nehal Elmeligy (Sociology), Marina Moscoso-Arabía (Geography), and Mahbubeh Moqadam (Sociology).
The panel was moderated by Andrea Pimentel Rivera, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science.
Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli, House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. “Women activists, the fight to protect the environment, affirm the public access to beaches and the consequences we face”.
Tania Rosario Méndez, MPH (she/her), Taller Salud. “Taller Salud: a multilevel political advocacy model to achieve health equity and end all forms of violence in Puerto Rico”.
Nayereh Tohidi (she/her), Professor Emeritus, California State University, Northridge. “Transnational Solidarity through glocal feminisms”.
The conference was co-sponsored by:
Center for African Studies
Center for Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Humanities Research Institute
Illinois Global Institute
Illinois International Programs
School of Social Work
Women’s Resources Center
This event was supported in part by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI grant program. The content of this event does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.