Talk: Sonia Henríquez presents “Advances and Challenges of the Indigenous Women’s Movement in Panama”

Sonia Henríquez, from the Guna pueblo, is a leader of Olowagli, a women’s organization of the Guna Yala region. She is the president of the National Coordinator of Indigenous Women of Panama, a member of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (where she has been part of the leadership), and a member of the Continental Commission of Commercialization and Intellectual Property. She represents indigenous women in the National Council of Women of Panama.

Faculty Curator: Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor, Department of Chicano/a Studies at UCLA

Organized by: Center for the Study of Women 

Co-sponsored by: Latin American Institute, Dean of the Social Sciences, Institute for American Cultures, Center for Oral History Research, and the Charles E. Young Research Library

This event is FREE. Reception to follow.