Building peace in the minds of men and women

World Press Freedom Day 2018

Thu, 3 May - 14:15 to 15:45

Parallel Session 13

Louise Carol Serwaa Donkor

Founding Director - Aya Institute for Women, Politics and Media

Louise Carol Serwaa Donkor (Ph.D.) teaches and researches on the broad areas of gender politics and media, formerly at University of Liverpool and Birmingham City University International College, United Kingdom. She is the Founding Director of Aya Institute for Women, Politics and Media – a research and training institute for gender equality. Aya Institute spearheads Gender Watch – a compendium of Baseline Studies; and Add Your Story, a gender based discrimination and sexual harassment project. Louise Carol has consulted for The World Bank, GIZ and Women Thrive Worldwide. In 2013 and 2014, she was in residence at Howard University (US) and McGill University (Canada) undertaking research on feminist political communications.