Webinar from the Fellowship of Reconciliation for the 2nd program in the 4-part international webinar series on sanctuary & migration.

Tomorrow’s program will feature speakers offering diverse expertise about asylum processes from Kenya/Germany; Colombia/Canada; Mexico/USA; and the moderator from Germany.

Please find details below and register for the free live Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KM0aptsYS0qN6CVtS76Miw

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KM0aptsYS0qN6CVtS76Miw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Webinar Speakers

Claudia Gomez (Founder @Intercultural Collective Ethnicities)

Claudia Gomez is an Afro-Colombian artist, Occupational Therapist, refugee, and former resident of Romero House / Toronto. She is the founder of the Intercultural Collective Ethnicities in Cali-Colombia and in Toronto as well, in which she works as an activist through the arts (dance, theater, music, handcrafts), demanding human rights in Colombia in general and in the Afro-Colombian population in particular. She is part of the Truth Commission of Colombia Node Ontario which is looking for clarifying the truth about what happened and is happening in the frame of armed conflicts in Colombia (one of the largest and most cruel conflict around the world) and has been working with Colombian victims of armed conflicts for eight years.

Marisa Limón Garza (Deputy Director @Hope Border Institute)

Marisa Limón Garza is a native fronteriza with over 18 years of experience engaging multicultural communities through the lens of advocacy, education, strategic communications, and community involvement. She currently serves as deputy director of the Hope Border Institute, a social justice nonprofit organization working in El Paso TX, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Marisa holds a master’s in education and bachelor’s in English and Spanish literature from the University of Notre Dame and a certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Ngari (Founder @Women in Exile)

Elizabeth Ngari is the founder of Women in Exile, an initiative of refugee women founded in Brandenburg/Germany in 2002 by refugee women to fight for their rights. They decided to organize as a refugee women’s group because they have made the experience that refugee women are doubly discriminated against not only by racist laws and discriminatory refugee laws in general but also as women. ‘Women in Exile & Friends’ was formed in 2011 by Women in Exile & activists in solidarity without refugee background. Together we conduct the campaign titled “No Lager for Women! Abolish all Lagers!”