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FEMINIST ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS PRESENTS: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL Born in India and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Monami has been a leader in grassroots organizing in the fields of immigrant, racial justice, youth and global justice for over 18 years. She founded and served as Executive Director of DRUM- Desis Rising Up and Moving, one of the first South Asian immigrant worker member-based organizations for social justice in the US. She is currently working as a consultant for UN Women. SAVANNAH BADALICH MONAMI MAULIK SATARUPA DASGUPTA As Program Associate for Breakthrough, a human rights organization working to make gender-based discrimination and violence culturally unacceptable, Savannah mobilizes communities to take action to address the cultural norms that promote gender-based violence. Previously while attending UCLA, she created 7,000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assualt, a multicampus sexual assault prevention campaign that combines education, arts activism and advocacy. Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:00-5:30PM Mabel Smith Douglass Library 8 Chapel Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Sponsored by: Margery Somers Foster Center, Rutgers University Libraries Center for Women's Global Leadership Douglass Global Village Douglass Residential College Women’s & Gender Studies Department As an Advocate for Manavi, an organization committed to ending all forms of violence and exploitation against South Asian women living in the US, Satarupa is designing and implementing culturally and linguistically specific sexual assault services for the South Asian immigrant population in New Jersey. She has a PhD in health communication and eleven years of experience working in research and academia specializing in sexual rights advocacy, health education and reproductive healthcare services.

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FEMINIST ADVOCACY FORWOMEN'S RIGHTS THROUGH THE

UNITED NATIONS PRESENTS:

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FORWOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL

Born in India and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Monami has been aleader in grassroots organizing in the fields of immigrant, racial justice,youth and global justice for over 18 years. She founded and served asExecutive Director of DRUM- Desis Rising Up and Moving, one of the firstSouth Asian immigrant worker member-based organizations for socialjustice in the US. She is currently working as a consultant for UN Women.

SAVANNAHBADALICH

MONAMI MAULIK

SATARUPADASGUPTA

As Program Associate for Breakthrough, a human rights organizationworking to make gender-based discrimination and violence culturallyunacceptable, Savannah mobilizes communities to take action to addressthe cultural norms that promote gender-based violence. Previously whileattending UCLA, she created 7,000 in Solidarity: A Campaign AgainstSexual Assualt, a multicampus sexual assault prevention campaign thatcombines education, arts activism and advocacy.

Wednesday, March 30, 20164:00-5:30PM

Mabel Smith Douglass Library 8 Chapel Drive

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Sponsored by:Margery Somers Foster Center, Rutgers UniversityLibrariesCenter for Women's Global LeadershipDouglass Global VillageDouglass Residential CollegeWomen’s & Gender Studies Department

As an Advocate for Manavi, an organization committed to ending allforms of violence and exploitation against South Asian women living inthe US, Satarupa is designing and implementing culturally andlinguistically specific sexual assault services for the South Asianimmigrant population in New Jersey. She has a PhD in healthcommunication and eleven years of experience working in research andacademia specializing in sexual rights advocacy, health education andreproductive healthcare services.