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We are excited about our Power of Women Organizing event tomorrow (Thursday, December 10) at 2pm EST/11am PST. HRWG Co-Chair Jacklyn Waight will be moderating as we hear from our esteemed panel: Dilafruz Khonikboyeva (Aga Khan Foundation), Yenny del Carmen Hurtado (SINTRASEDOM) and Nikki Patin (CAASE). See below for their bios and the link to register:
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva is currently a Global Lead for the Aga Khan Foundation, working in some of the most remote, fragile contexts. She was formerly with the US Agency for International Development’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), where she worked on complex humanitarian crises, including Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Ukraine. She is a 2019 Presidential Leadership Scholar and a WCAPS Co-Chair for the Climate Change and International Development subgroup.
Nikki Patin Patin is the Community Engagement Director for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation and the founder and Executive Producer of Surviving the Mic, a survivor-led organization that crafts brave and affirming space for survivors of sexual trauma. In 2014, she made history when she addressed the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on behalf of Black women survivors of sexual violence in the U.S. Nikki Patin holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of Southern Maine.
Yenny del Carmen Hurtado Yenny serves as the President of the National Union of Workers of the Domestic Service SINTRASEDOM, and is the co-founder of several international organizations such as LACTRAHO (Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Home Workers), FITH (International Federation of Home Workers), and Migrants Rights International (RIM). Yenny has also co-founded several national organizations such as the Alliance Against Trafficking in Persons and is a member of the GAATW Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. Yenny was part of a team that was a driving force behind Law 11 of 1988, the first law in Colombia to guarantee labor rights and social security for domestic workers.