MONIQUE CLESCA is a Haitian writer, journalist, and feminist democracy advocate whose memoir, Silence and Resistance: Memoir of a Girlhood in Haiti (Wordeee), recounts a youth shaped by dictatorship, censorship, and the defiant voices that nurtured her. A former senior United Nations official, she served with United Nations Population Fund in Niger and as a communications officer with UNICEF in Haiti before turning to independent policy work focused on women’s rights, youth, and governance. In civil society, she helped craft the citizens’ Montana Accord and serves on the commission advancing a Haitian solution to the current crisis. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in outlets from Foreign Affairs and The New York Times to Haitian media, and she speaks widely about the rule of law and elections. Splitting time between Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Miami, she continues to champion survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence and the rebuilding of Haiti’s institutions through civic leadership and dialogue.
- Nov. 22 - 12:00pm
Free