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Dr. Jewelles Smith (Moderator)
<\/strong>Jewelles is a strong voice for human rights in Canada; she is a feminist disability activist, scholar, writer, and artist. Smith is passionate about Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, in particular, at the intersections of gender and disability. Her current work is focused on housing, sexual & reproductive rights, climate action, and democratic engagement. Jewelles lives on the pacific coast of British Columbia with her service dog, DaVinci.<\/p>\n

Musola C Kaseketi
<\/strong>Zambia\u2019s first Female Film Director and International Award Winner, Musola C. Kaseketi is a Human Rights Advocate biased to women and girls with disabilities who uses film as a tool to bring hope to the hopeless.<\/p>\n

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Patrycja Polczyk
<\/strong>Patrycja Polczyk is a social anthropologist, philosopher, researcher, woman with disability, and feminist. Patrycja is a published author of scholar papers and articles in mainstream media, with Disability Studies and Auto-etnography as her main research interests. Her experience comes from studying, taking part in international Summer Schools and research projects. She is currently working in customer care, but trying to find time for personal passions \u2013 researching, traveling, reading and writing old-school paper letters.<\/p>\n

Celine Osukwu<\/strong>
Celine is a global disability and women\u2019s rights activist. She also leads civil society organizations such as the Divine Foundation for Disabled Persons and government agencies in advocacy and programs aimed at improving the lives of indigent persons as well as promoting inclusion of marginalized groups, especially persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n

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Weaving Rights Into Women\u2019s Realities: Disabled Women\u2019s Rights Defenders in the Global Context: a Conversation on Using CRPD and CEDAW November 17, 2022 at 12pm EST Moderator: Dr. Jewelles SmithPanelists: Musola Kaseketi, Patrycja Polczyk, and Celine Osukwu Click here to register for the event. Join Dr. Jewelles Smith with Musola Kaseketi, Patrycja Polczyk, and Celine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,506,507,152,149,153,95,151],"ppma_author":[1162],"class_list":{"0":"post-5691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens-rights","8":"tag-cedaw","9":"tag-conversation","10":"tag-crpd","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-human","13":"tag-institute","14":"tag-rights","15":"tag-womens"},"yoast_head":"\n