Episode 29: Spotlight: Feminist Movement Builders School with Awino Okech & Shereen Essof

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building SchoolIn this final episode of our Spotlight Series, Awino Okech, Director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ), and Shereen Essof, Executive Director of Just Associates (JASS) have a reflective conversation on the three-year partnership co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools (FMBS). The schools, convened across Latin America and Eastern & Southern Africa, brought together 35 activists to strengthen feminist organising, political education, and collective power. BioShereen Essof is a Zimbabwean popular educator and organizer.  Her work is grounded in an engagement with movements, community-based organizations and cultural collectives. She strives to understand power inherent in the interlocking nature of oppressive systems and from that understanding, to imagine, organize and build towards liberated futures. Shereen has published widely including: Shemurenga: The Zimbabwean Women’s Movement. Weaver Press; My Dream is to be Bold: The Work to End Patriarchy. Pambazuka Press and Feminist Alternatives; Searching for South Africa: The New Calculus of Dignity. UNISA Press.  She currently serves as Executive Director of Just Associates (JASS), a global feminist movement strengthening organization that equips and strengthens the leadership and organizing capacity of women leaders and their organizations in Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, and East and Southern Africa. CreditsProduced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial JusticeSound design, editing, production: Samuel Oduor Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay