No Time For Fear — Politicking Girls: Girls of The March For Our Lives

Apr 2, 2018 | Blog

Last weekend in Washington D.C., all around the United States and all over the world, hundreds of thousands of people rallied for and pleaded with the federal government to enact sensible gun control. The March for Our Lives movement sprung out of the Marjory Stoneman...

Exhibition Review: Beyond Suffrage

Feb 9, 2018 | Blog, Review

In November 2017, I had the opportunity to go to a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York about women in politics — obviously my favorite topic! The exhibition, Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, traced women’s political...

No Time For Fear — Politicking Girls: Nigerian girls in politics

Feb 5, 2018 | Blog

In this latest No Time For Fear column, I want to share a Reuters article that I came across recently. Nigeria is having its general election in 2019; this alone is cause for worry. Female politicians and civil society leaders have said that women are not likely to...

No Time For Fear — Politicking Girls: Political Awareness in 2017

Dec 11, 2017 | Blog

For my last No Time For Fear column of 2017, I decided to end on a somewhat happier note, even though we all know there are heaps of not-so-positive things happening all over the world, at this very moment, concerning girls and politics. Think of this column as a call...

No Time For Fear — Politicking Girls: Sexual Harassment in U.S. Politics

Nov 27, 2017 | Blog

With the recent wave of sexual harassment stories coming to light in all spheres of life all over the world, I thought I would take this week’s column to discuss a subset of that, namely the policies and procedures that women have to go through to report sexual...