New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women
present the
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
September 28
Natasha Lamoreux, MSc, Center for Global Affairs, New York University;
Independent human rights consultant
“The Hated Poor in Crisis: Roma Women as Reproducers of a Despised Class”
Friday 4:30-6:00 p.m.
at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)
Follow Natasha on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NatashaLamoreux!
Natasha is a graduate of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs (CGA) where she earned a Master’s of Science in the Human Rights concentration, with focus on women’s human rights, gender equality, and empowerment and engagement of women and other marginalized communities. She completed her graduate thesis on linkages between the Roma Women’s Movement and Western Liberal Feminist movements as a means to dismantle endemic ethnic discrimination in Europe. Natasha spent three months serving as the Human Rights Education intern with the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest, Hungary while researching this subject. Additionally, Natasha served as Human Rights concentration leader for Lysistrata, the Gender Working Group at the CGA. Natasha writes and contributes to various sites including the Atlantic Community and Feminist.com, and currently works as a Human Rights and Gender consultant for various organizations including UNICEF and Feminist.com. Natasha currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
