FEMINIST ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS PRESENTS: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL Born in India and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Monami has been a leader in grassroots organizing in the fields of immigrant, racial justice, youth and global justice for over 18 years. She founded and served as Executive Director of DRUM- Desis Rising Up and Moving, one of the first South Asian immigrant worker member-based organizations for social justice in the US. She is currently working as a consultant for UN Women. SAVANNAH BADALICH MONAMI MAULIK SATARUPA DASGUPTA As Program Associate for Breakthrough, a human rights organization working to make gender-based discrimination and violence culturally unacceptable, Savannah mobilizes communities to take action to address the cultural norms that promote gender-based violence. Previously while attending UCLA, she created 7,000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assualt, a multicampus sexual assault prevention campaign that combines education, arts activism and advocacy. Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:00-5:30PM Mabel Smith Douglass Library 8 Chapel Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Sponsored by: Margery Somers Foster Center, Rutgers University Libraries Center for Women's Global Leadership Douglass Global Village Douglass Residential College Women’s & Gender Studies Department As an Advocate for Manavi, an organization committed to ending all forms of violence and exploitation against South Asian women living in the US, Satarupa is designing and implementing culturally and linguistically specific sexual assault services for the South Asian immigrant population in New Jersey. She has a PhD in health communication and eleven years of experience working in research and academia specializing in sexual rights advocacy, health education and reproductive healthcare services.