الجاليه السودانيه ببوسطن مدعوه لحضور ورشه للتديب غدا December 7, 2013

الجاليه السودانيه ببوسطن مدعوه لحضور ورشه التديب

Diaspora Training Day

Where: 5 Longfellow Park | Cambridge, MA 02138

When: December 7, 2013

Time: 9:00AM – 4:00PM



Agenda:

9:00-9:30am Registration/Coffee and Tea

9:30-10:00am Welcome and Opening remark by Jimmy Mulla, Voices for Sudan, Enough Project, Humanity United, Quaker House Peace and Social Concern

10:00-11:00am Advocacy: Telling Your Story

Presenter Rachel Finn,

11:00-11:10am Break

11:10-12:00pm Advocacy: Buildings and Maintaining Political Will.

Presenter Rachel Finn

12:00-1:00pm Lunch—Special Guest Speaker Dr. Luka Biong

1:00-2:10pm Media

Presenter Boston Based Media Consultant

2:10-2:20pm Break

2:20-3:25pm Development

Presenter Nirvana Chetty,

3:25-3:45pm AMEN Project. Khalid Kodi-

3:45-4:00pm Closing Remarks and Evaluations

Thank you for Coming!

For more information about Voices for Sudan and our upcoming events please visit our website at http://www.voicesforsudan.org/ or email us at [email protected].



SPEAKERS’ BIOS



Jimmy Mulla

Jimmy Mulla's professional career has shifted between the technical field, research, and important Sudanese human rights advocacy work. He is an engineer by trade. Currently Jimmy is the president and cofounder of Voices for Sudan (VFS), formerly known as the Southern Sudanese Voice for Freedom (SSVF). Mr. Mulla is a long time Sudan activist and has led a wide range of advocacy and awareness-raising efforts for the North-South conflict including Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, Darfur genocide, Eastern Sudan and other Sudan issues. He was the founding member and president of Southern Sudanese Voice for Freedom (SSVF). SSVF played an instrumental role in the passage of the U.S. Sudan Peace Act and the appointment of a U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, which re-energized the civil war peace talks; helped raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur; and helped facilitate an aggressive and successful divestment campaign that raises awareness of companies that do business with Sudan. Mulla has been on CNN, Voice of America TV and Radio, Al-Jazeera, Al-Hura and other major news networks.





Rachel Finn, Advocacy Associate

igh Resolution Rachel Finn is the Enough Project’s Advocacy Associate. She recently served as a Research Associate with the International Center for Conciliation. Prior to this experience, she was a Tony Blair Faith Foundation Faiths Act Fellow at the San Francisco Interfaith Council, mobilizing local communities around the UN Millennium Development Goals in interfaith settings, with a focus on a malaria-based community health project in Sierra Leone.

Rachel holds a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, where she studied international security, religion, and worked on campus-wide genocide education programming. She believes deeply in our personal responsibility to end crimes against humanity and mass atrocities throughout the world.



Dr. Luka Biong Deng



Dr Luka Biong is a senior fellow at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is the Executive Director of Kush Inc. He is a recognized expert on the affairs of the greater Sudan, poverty, vulnerability, famine, civil wars, constitution-making, and state building. He served as a national Minister of Sudan and as a Minister in the Office of the President of South Sudan. He also worked as a Senior Economist for the World Bank. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in UK. He also earned a Master of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has written scholarly articles published in international journals such as the Journal of Eastern African Studies, the Journal of African Affairs, the Journal of Disasters, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Bulletin, the Oxford Journal of Forced Migration, and the Journal of Civil wars.





Nirvana Chetty, Development Associate



Nirvana Chetty is the Development Associate at the Enough Project. Prior to joining Enough, Nirvana worked at Polaris Project as a Development Associate. She has also interned at Amnesty International Australia in their Crisis Response Division monitoring hotspots in the Asia Pacific region.

She graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia with a bachelor's degree in Economics. Nirvana worked in the Australian financial services industry for several years before going to graduate school to get her Masters in International Relations from Macquarie University. Nirvana was born in Fiji and moved to Australia as a child. In the fall of 2011, she moved permanently to DC to start her career in the human rights field.



Khalid Kodi



Khalid Kodi is an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and a resident artist in the African American Master Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP), Department of African American Studies, Northeastern University. Khalid Kodi is a widely exhibited artist whose works are in several private and public collections in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas. The AMEN Project started in response to a church burning incident in Gireif, a residential area in Khartoum, Sudan. Khalid Kodi, initiated the project with the help of a multi-religious and multi-ethnic team of artists who are students at Boston College.

December 7, 2013