This is the final post of the series where we resume the speakers that we will see next tuesday. 

If you are interested in attending please confirm your participation on our Facebook’s event website, hope the see you there!

Tony Porter

Educator, Activist and Lecturer. A gifted public speaker, Tony Porter
is an educator and activist working in the social justice arena for
over twenty years. He is nationally recognized for his effort to end
men’s violence against women. Tony is the original visionary and
co-founder behind A CALL TO MEN: The National Association of Men and
Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women. He is the author of
“Well Meaning Men…Breaking Out of the Man Box – Ending
Violence Against Women” and the visionary for the book, NFL Dads
Dedicated to Daughters.

Johanna
Blakley

As the Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center (a media-focused
think tank at the University of Southern California) Johanna Blakley spends much of her time exploring
how our entertainment interacts with our political, commercial and
social habits. She is especially interested in the
surprising impact of intellectual property rights on innovation,
organizing conferences around the lack of creative ownership in
fashion as well as technology and the ownership of creative
content.

Blakley has worked across a huge variety of media
platforms — producing for the web on a large scale, conducting
gaming research, coordinating events for film festivals and executing
consumer research on entertainment and politics. Drawing on this vast
body of experience, she also lectures at USC and helped develop their
masters program in Public Diplomacy.

Mona
Eltahawy

Mona
Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and an international public
speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is based in New York.

She is a columnist for Qatar’s Al Arab newspaper, Israel’s The
Jerusalem Report, Denmark’s Politiken and Metro Canada. Her opinion
pieces have been published frequently in The Washington Post and the
International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as a guest analyst
in several media outlets.

In 2009, the European Union awarded her its Samir Kassir Prize for
Freedom of the Press for her opinion writing and Search for Common
Ground named her a winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle
Eastern Journalism.

Jacklyne Mantaine Lemeria + Lemeria Ole Leperes

At 14, Jacklyne Mantaine Lemeria ran away from an arranged marriage
in her Maasai community. Returning to her village this year, she and
her father, Lemeria Ole Leperes, have reached a new understanding.

We invite you to read the full list of speakers that will participate on wednesday sessions too, and you can check out the other speakers of tuesday here: 

TEDxUFRO + TEDWomen Speakers (pt. 3)

Conferencistas de TEDxUFRO + TEDWomen (pt. 2)

Conferencistas de TEDxUFRO + TEDWomen (pt. 1)