Se fosse uma semana melhor, pensaria até em dar uma escapada para aparecer aí. Deixem bem claro para a Anasuya que ela TEM que voltar com mais tempo... :(
Abs, Vini > Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:59:51 -0200 > From: t...@wikimedia.org > To: wikimediabr-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Brasil] Anasuya no Brasil > > A Anasuya é uma das pessoas mais interessantes que tive o prazer de > conhecer na Wikimedia Foundation. Sobre ela, por ela mesma (de um > e-mail quando o Barry a apresentou): > > ************************ > Life will be measured > > by notability test? > > My secrets are mine! ;-) > ...but until we meet in person: > > I am an activist turned grant-maker, who has worked nationally, > regionally, and internationally, to build and strengthen > multi-generational feminist leadership and networks, and to amplify > voices from the margins – whether across gender, sexuality, class, > caste, race, age, geography or language. I grew up in north Karnataka > (southern India), and returned to work in this part of the world after > my undergraduate degree in Economics, as a Programme Officer at > Samuha, a rural development organisation. I took its lessons with me > into an M.Phil. in Development Studies at Oxford, where I studied as a > Rhodes Scholar. I led a UNICEF initiative with the Karnataka police > from 2001-2007, designing and implementing a state wide system of > response to issues of violence against women and children. Over the > same period, I served as Associate and researcher with Gender at Work, > an international knowledge network for gender equality. I co-edited > and wrote for the Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) > publication, Defending Our Dreams: global feminist voices for a new > generation (AWID and Zed Books, 2006), arguably the first > international anthology of young feminist analyses and experience. I > have founded campaigns, and been involved with national and > international networks against religious and cultural fundamentalisms, > and for sexual and reproductive rights and women's health. > > In 2007, I moved from Bangalore to Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar at > UC Berkeley and the Managing Trustee of a small Stanford-based family > foundation funding in South India. Over the past three years, I have > been Regional Program Director for Asia and Oceania at the Global Fund > for Women, one of the world's largest grant-making organisations > exclusively for women's human rights. In this capacity, I have > overseen over 300 grants to women-led organisations in the region – > from Afghanistan to Kiribati - and helped develop a framework for > evaluating and learning our impact on organisational growth and > movement sustainability. My interest in the politics of technology has > been from the point of view of a women’s rights activist, academic, > and grant-maker. With Bangalore as home, surrounded by friends and > family who are progressive technologists, I started questioning the > politics of the software and hardware that is ubiquitous in our lives > – and ended up using Ubuntu Linux on my laptop. However, the > Free/Libre and Open Source Movement is not simply about technologies; > at its heart is the feminist principle that governs my politics: if > knowledge is power, then the empowerment of the marginalised is > through a democratisation of knowledge, and the equality of the future > is through a deconstruction of the privileging powers of access, > voice, representation and participation. > > I am passionate about poetry (a haiku a day keeps my blues away), > theatre, and music, and challenge myself with yoga. I tend to stick > with my post-colonial British form of spelling and punctuation ('s' > over 'z' and a nuanced use of the Oxford comma) unless explicitly > asked not to do so. > > ---- > > Certamente todas meninas se interessaram pelas atividades próximas ao > dia das mulheres poderiam aproveitar essa oportunidade. Meninos, é > claro, também. Acho que vou depois por esse texto na Anasuya na > Wikipédia. Numa perspectiva de alguém que nunca ouviu falar sobre o > trabalho dela, pode-se pensar "Ah, legal, mais alguém da WMF vindo > para o Brasil." ; ) > > Tom > > > 2013/2/16 Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton <rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com>: > > Dona Oona avisou na brwiki, mas não aqui, a Anasuya virá à SPaulo dia 22, > > tem umas reuniões para participar no dia 22: > > http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:%C3%81gora/Reuni%C3%B5es_com_institui%C3%A7%C3%B5es_possivelmente_parceiras > > Mas a ideia é realizar um encontro no sábado: > > http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:%C3%81gora/Anasuya_em_SP > > > > Quem vai? > > > > -- > > Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton > > rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com > > +55 11 97 97 18 884 > > _______________________________________________ > > WikimediaBR-l mailing list > > WikimediaBR-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l > > > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more > useful than a life spent doing nothing." > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaBR-l mailing list > WikimediaBR-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l
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