Host a Speaker
Around the world, women are creating concrete solutions to poverty, violence, climate change and other crises and MADRE speakers have an essential perspective to share.
Executive Director Vivian Stromberg and Policy and Communications Director Yifat Susskind speak at colleges, community centers, places of worship and conferences across the country and internationally.
These talks are a terrific opportunity to learn about the real life impact of US foreign policy, human rights crises in the communities where we work, and the initiatives for peace and justice of MADRE's sister organizations.
Many talks feature the leaders of our sister organizations, who are on the frontlines of today’s global crises. Hear directly from the women who are creating positive change in Afghanistan, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Peru, and Sudan.
MADRE speakers have presented at: Amherst College, Bridgewater State College, Brown University, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Fordham University, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, Middlebury College, New York University, Rutgers University, Skidmore College, United Nations Youth Assembly, University of Colorado-Boulder, and University of Southern California.
If you would like more information, and are associated with a university, high school, religious institution or community organization that can help support our programs by arranging for an honorarium and covering travel expenses, please contact us at speakers@madre.org or 212-627-0444.
Speakers from MADRE’s sister organizations:
- Fatima Ahmed, Director of Zenab for Women in Development, Sudan
- Mónica Alemán, Executive Director of the International Indigenous Women's Forum
- Rose Cunningham, Director of Wangki Tangni, Nicaragua
- Rebecca Lolosoli, Director of the Umoja Uaso Women’s Group, Kenya
- Houzan Mahmoud, International Representative of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
- Silvia Martinez, Coordinator of the Nicaraguan chapter of the Latin American and Caribbean Trans Network (Red LAC Trans)
- Yanar Mohammed, Director of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
