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1. Uniting to End FGM/C Across the Americas: A Joint Statement
(News & Blog)
... prevention models from diverse contexts within the Americas.  Coordinate consistent, survivor-centered communications by ensuring that messaging and communications around FGM/C align across the region, ...
Created on 06 February 2025
2. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... extensive engagement in human rights advocacy, including roles within the strategic communications department and participation in human rights for youth campaigns at Amnesty International USA. Samman ...
Created on 24 December 2024
3. Staff Spotlight: Communications Assistant Kira Omans
(News & Blog)
Kira joins Sahiyo with a background in humanitarian advocacy, communications, community outreach, and storytelling. She completed her B.F.A. with a concentration in Stage and Screen Performance and a Communications ...
Created on 05 November 2024
4. Impactful Media Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: A Reflection on our April 17, 2024 Webinar
(News & Blog)
... This webinar explored how to report on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in a culturally cognizant, gender-sensitive, and ethical way. Attendees were media and communications professionals. Speakers ...
Created on 21 May 2024
5. Upcoming Event: "Impactful Media Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: A Conversation
(News & Blog)
... The moderators of this event are Sahiyo Co-founder and U.S. executive director, Mariya Taher, and Equality Now Communications officer for North America, Mel Bailey. Attendees will gain insights on: The ...
Created on 09 April 2024
6. Bearing Tradition: Navigating the Pressure of Khatna
(News & Blog)
... and daughters-in-law. Faizneen is a communications professional with 12+ years of experience working to inspire action and meaningful engagement via content creation, storytelling, and media in ...
Created on 11 January 2024
7. Presenting the Critical Intersections Research Project to The Girl Generation
(News & Blog)
... as well as the complex identities of survivors and activists, through an array of literature such as peer-reviewed literature, editorials, opinion pieces, reviews, and social media communications. The ...
Created on 08 December 2023
8. Volunteer Spotlight: Social Media and Communications Intern Xinge Lei
(News & Blog)
... about Sahiyo this April as I was browsing for summer internships on LinkedIn. I applied for the social media and communications intern position because I’ve had prior experience in roles like this. I had ...
Created on 09 November 2023
9. Critical Intersections
(Programs)
... works, including peer-reviewed literature, editorials, opinion pieces, reviews, and social media communications, to better understand how intersectionality comes across within the movement to end FGM/C. ...
Created on 28 August 2023
10. Volunteer spotlight: Editorial Intern Cecilia Mwakenya
(News & Blog)
Cecilia Mwakenya is a journalist, and a recent graduate from Rural Aid Kenya, where she pursued a diploma in communications (broadcast option). Previously, she worked as a social media volunteer at Tunza ...
Created on 19 April 2023
11. Full circle: A bridge from the political to the personal
(News & Blog)
... aspects of our life to our work, and going public with our truths. As a communications specialist, I have worked with many survivors to tell their stories. I have always felt that the story-teller/interviewer ...
Created on 12 April 2023
12. Reflecting on There’s an App For That?: Technological Innovation and Change Towards Ending Female Genital Cutting event
(News & Blog)
... discover answers to ongoing challenges.  The next speaker was Myriam Mhamedi, a lead communications and campaigns strategist for the End FGM EU Network. Myriam is in charge of implementing the Network' ...
Created on 30 March 2023
13. Sahiyo spotlight: Outgoing U.S. Advisory Board Chair Arefa Cassoobhoy
(News & Blog)
Arefa Cassoobhoy is a board certified internal medicine physician with expertise in digital health communications. She is committed to raising awareness of topics like female genital cutting and is honored ...
Created on 13 March 2023
14. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Social media intern Olachi Nwagwu
(News & Blog)
Olachi is a UW-Madison graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Communications. She is an aspiring entrepreneur and content creator who is passionate about sustainability and community design based thinking. ...
Created on 16 July 2022
15. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Social media intern Kristel Mendoza Castillo
(News & Blog)
Kristel Mendoza Castillo is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut majoring in Communications. She strongly believes in the values of consent and a woman’s right over her own ...
Created on 07 September 2021
16. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Communications intern Amena Ali
(News & Blog)
Communications intern Amena Ali lives in Houston, Texas, and her all-time obsessions are tea and cat videos. She has a degree in psychology, but is currently working as a personal stylist. She is passionate ...
Created on 03 August 2021
17. Sahiyo’s U.S. Communications Manager is awarded a Masters degree with merit
(News & Blog)
Lara Kingstone, Sahiyo’s U.S. Communications Manager, was awarded a Masters of Science in Social Development Practice with merit from University College, London. Her dissertation is entitled, “The Cultural ...
Created on 09 March 2021
18. Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Isabel Panno Shepard
(News & Blog)
Isabel joined Sahiyo as a Communications Intern. She studied cultural anthropology and human rights at Duke University. She is interested in the use of alternative media for social justice and believes ...
Created on 14 December 2020
19. Sahiyo staff spoke in a symposia entitled Mothers and daughters: continuity, love, fear and belonging
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo Communications Coordinator Lara Kingstone and co-founder Mariya Taher were honored to speak on behalf of Sahiyo in a symposia entitled, Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female Bodies Contested, Invaded, ...
Created on 18 November 2020
20. Sahiyo and StoryCenter host virtual storytelling event on the intersection of race and female genital cutting: A reflection
(News & Blog)
... to create. Just an hour before the virtual start time, I texted Lara, the Communications Coordinator and also my direct internship supervisor. I told her I was nervous and that I felt uncomfortable inserting ...
Created on 20 October 2020