April 26 Meeting Preview
Speaker Neema Namadamu, Women Thrive Worldwide
Neema Namadamu is a visionary game changer and an amazing leader for women, girls, and for people with disabilities. She herself is a survivor of polio and was the first woman with a disability to ever go to college in all of DRC. Women Thrive Worldwide named her as 1 of 14 Fierce Women’s Rights Advocates To Watch In 2014. In a Huffington Post article, peace activist John Dear said, “She ranks with Leymah Gbowee, the Nobel laureate from Liberia and Mairead Maguire, the Nobel laureate from Belfast – two of our greatest living peacemakers.”