- Type: Panels and Workshops
- Year: 2014
Conversation with Nobel Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee and Athena Film Festival Co-Founder, Kathryn Kolbert
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights advocate whose leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003. Her efforts to end the war ushered in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 in which Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected President, making Liberia the first African nation to have a female president. In 2008, Gbowee was featured in the award winning documentary film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She is currently serving as the inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice at Barnard.
Join Leymah Gbowee and the Athena Center’s Director, Kathryn Kolbert as they discuss Leymah’s efforts to bring peace and social justice to war-torn areas and how films such as Pray the Devil Back to Hell can propel international recognition of advocacy.
Date: Sunday, February 9, 2014, 3PM
Special Screening Prior to the Conversation with Leymah Gbowee
One Billion RisingDirectors: Eve Ensler & Tony Stroebel
Documentary Short, 2013 [US] English, 9 minutes
In 2013, one billion women and men rose and shook the earth through dance to end violence against women in the biggest mass action ever. The event was a radical awakening of body and consciousness. This is what it looked like.
