Nicky Leroux
feminist activist WoMinDominique is an intersectional African feminist activist with a passion for womxn’srights, voice and agency.Her political position is the disruption of oppressive systems of power that exists in gender, race, “north” vs “south”; class, ethnicity, language and sexual identity to name just a few. And her analysis and thinking on social justice and women’s oppression is framed by these politics.
Nicky has a strong background and extensive experience in the development field, having worked in development programming, grant making and programmemanagement for well over 20 years. She is employed by WoMin, an African regional feminist collective working on issues of the many violence’s brought on to women in rural and peri urban communities; by states and corporates involved in large scale naturalresource extraction.This work takes her across the continent and has afforded her the exposure to and opportunity of working in the various contexts in which women experience these layers of violence through this vicious form of imposed development.
Nicky provides leadership to WoMin on organisational development, particularly around policy development. This includes leadership on WoMin’s monitoring and evaluation strategy and has been working to build a feminist ML&E for the programmes and partners thatprioritises learning over outcomes.
Nicky thrives on the creation of womxn’s spaces to promote cross learning, solidarity and mobilisation; and also in spaces for women to meet and share with the sole purpose of such.
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