This International Women’s Day, we honor all of the women lost to violence around the world. Jeneile Luebke & Daniela Philipson Garcia will join us to discuss how femicide upholds white supremacy & the steps we can take to end the violence & heal.
Jeneile Luebke PhD, RN is a post-doctoral nurse research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. She received her BS and MS Nursing from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is an enrolled member of Bad River Band. Her area of research and expertise include intimate partner violence in the lives of American Indian women, and utilization and application of postcolonial and Indigenous feminist frameworks.
Daniela Philipson Garcia (she/her/hers) is a white Mexican (whitexican) and feminist activist. While in college in Mexico City, Daniela co-founded a student-run feminist organization, Cuarta Ola, to denounce machismo, advocate to legalize abortion and help prevent violence against women and girls. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she works on police accountability and does yoga in her living room during the lockdown. Daniela is also a former Fulbright-Garcia scholar and has a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sometimes, she publishes articles on gender, peace and security, and police reform in Mexico.