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21. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board spotlight: Nesha Abiraj
(News & Blog)
... to be awarded the Citation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for my tireless work to protect the children of the Commonwealth from early, forced, and child marriages. When did you first get involved ...
Created on 10 December 2021
22. Sahiyo leads training for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners
(News & Blog)
On November 9th, Sahiyo team members volunteer Zahra Qaiyumi, Programs Intern Sarah Boudreau, and Programs Coordinator Cate Cox led a training for Massachusetts based Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs). ...
Created on 30 November 2021
23. Sahiyo participates in Massachusetts Healthy Youth Consortium
(News & Blog)
On November 1st Sahiyo partnered with The Massachusetts Healthy Youth Consortium (MAHYC) to hold a training for K-12 teachers about the importance of using education as a means of preventing female genital ...
Created on 11 November 2021
24. Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... from Mariya how Sahiyo’s work has been instrumental in passing state laws; most recently, and successfully, in Massachusetts. Sahiyo is now engaged in similar work to pass a state law in Connecticut, one ...
Created on 01 November 2021
25. Using purity as a means to control women through Christianity and female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
...  Evangelical America I grew up as a minister’s daughter and one of eight children with five sisters and two brothers. My dad was a minister at an evangelical church in Boston, Massachusetts. While the ...
Created on 15 June 2021
26. PRESS RELEASE: Launching Sahiyo's Newest Program: Bhaiyo: Male Allies United in Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cuttin
(News & Blog)
Launching Sahiyo’s Newest Program, Bhaiyo: Male Allies United in Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Boston, Massachusetts, February 6, 2021 On Feburary 6th 2021, The International Day for Zero ...
Created on 06 February 2021
27. The United States has a law banning female genital cutting. What now?
(News & Blog)
...  “While we celebrate the signing of H.R. 6100 and the recent Massachusetts law, we must continue to advocate for not only the criminalization of FGM/C, but a Federal Education Law,” said Angela Peabody, ...
Created on 14 January 2021
28. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Aisha
(News & Blog)
... the people were. My experience in living in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Boston, Massachusetts, has both enriched my life. Both countries have taught me about the diversity of the human race. Both experiences ...
Created on 25 November 2020
29. Crave Foundation recognizes Sahiyo co-founder Mariya Taher as 2020 grantee
(News & Blog)
... to learn how to undo that violence.” In addition to her work at Sahiyo, Taher collaborates with the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association on passing state legislation to criminalize FGC; an endeavor ...
Created on 06 August 2020
30. Massachusetts Senate passes FGM/C bill
(News & Blog)
BOSTON, MA – July 30, 2020 – Sahiyo would like to thank the President of the Massachusetts Senate, Karen Spilka, and bill sponsor Senator Joe Boncore (D-First Suffolk and Middlesex) for the passage of ...
Created on 30 July 2020
31. Massachusetts House passes FGM/C bill
(News & Blog)
July 16, 2020 – The Massachusetts House of Representatives has just voted favorably in an informal session to pass a bill to protect girls from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). H.4606 – An Act ...
Created on 16 July 2020
32. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... to end female genital cutting. You sit on the inaugural Steering Committee to end female genital cutting with the U.S. End FGM/C Network. In Massachusetts, you work with The Women’s Bar Association to ...
Created on 25 June 2020
33. Digital advocacy on female genital cutting in the time of COVID-19
(News & Blog)
... is also affecting progress around ending FGC at a more structural level.  “In Massachusetts where I am, the state law against FGC has been delayed because there are more pressing things to look at right ...
Created on 18 June 2020
34. U.S. Sahiyo Board Member Spotlight: A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD
(News & Blog)
... Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 9, 2018. I practiced my ACH Winter Course workshop that uses Sahiyo videos at the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) unit at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. I was ...
Created on 17 November 2019
35. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Melody Joy Eckardt
(News & Blog)
... Medical Center in Boston and practiced ob/gyn on the South Shore of Massachusetts before returning to get my Masters in Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After that time I began ...
Created on 16 October 2019
36. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Joanne Golden
(News & Blog)
...   I was born and (mostly) raised in Massachusetts, but I got the travel bug at age 4, when my dad was in the U.S. Army and stationed at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium. ...
Created on 10 August 2019
37. Cofounders
(Uncategorised)
... with basic needs grants. Since 2015, she has collaborated with the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association to pass legislation to protect girls from FGC. After starting a Change.org petition and gathering ...
Created on 02 July 2019
38. PRESS RELEASE: A pioneering Roundtable to Address Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Massachusetts
(News & Blog)
Download press release as PDF PRESS RELEASE: A pioneering Roundtable to Address Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Massachusetts    Boston, Massachusetts, 14 June 2019   On June 13, 2019, ...
Created on 15 June 2019
39. Learning new methods of data analysis to conduct research on female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... unsupportive of female genital cutting.  More on Cameron: Cameron Adelman is a senior neuroscience major and women and gender studies minor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He has been working ...
Created on 25 April 2019
40. Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?
(News & Blog)
By Maryah Haidery Country of Residence: United States Last month, the Columbia University South Asian Feminisms Alliance organized a panel discussion in New York City to discuss female genital mutilation ...
Created on 20 March 2019