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*Please note the change to the original date for this seminar, it will now take place on 7 March 2022.*
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Leadership development – especially of young women – has become a popular strategy among donors, philanthropies and development agencies. Until recently, however, most of these did not interrogate the nature of the leadership they were trying to build, much less how to make the practice of leadership transformative from a feminist perspective.
Srilatha Batliwala, whose work has focused on this for over a decade, takes us through a journey of interrogating the current leadership paradigm, the challenges involved in transforming it, and diverse pathways – including radical feminist mentoring and collective leadership processes – through which this can be achieved.
Speaker
Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist activist, researcher, scholar and trainer whose four and a half decades of work has spanned grassroots movement building with marginalised urban and rural women, research and scholarly work, policy advocacy, grant-making, and capacity building of young women activists around the world. She has worked in both India and in various international organisations. She is best known for building theory from practice, including on women’s empowerment, women’s movements, and feminist approaches to movement building, monitoring and evaluation, and feminist leadership.
Srilatha is currently Senior Advisor, Knowledge Building at CREA, an international organisation that works at the intersection of gender, sexuality and human rights; Senior Associate for Gender at Work, a global network of gender experts supporting organisations to build cultures of equality and inclusion; and Honorary Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London. Srilatha is based in Bangalore, India.