Academic Lecture Series Presents: Turn
Off the Violence featuring Francisca Vigaud-Walsh
Francisca Vigaud-Walsh is the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Sexual
and Gender-Based Violence Program Manager (SGBV), tasked with
developing the organization’s policy on SGBV and providing
technical assistance to CRS programs throughout the world. Having
been trained in the multi-sectoral coordination of SGBV in
humanitarian settings, Francisca is spearheading an effort to
incorporate SGBV prevention and response into CRS programming in
humanitarian crises.
Francisca has several years of protection-related experience,
including work with refugees and displaced communities with the
IRC, Church World Service, the UN and CRS in the US, Balkans and
several African countries. In her most recent overseas CRS post,
she served as the Emergency Programs Manager in Abéché, Chad, where
she worked with local partners in the management of three refugee
camps, as well as providing disaster assistance to host communities
and internally-displaced persons.
Francisca holds an MA in Conflict Management and International
Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, as well as a BA in International Relations
from American University. Her studies have focused on international
human rights law, and ethnic conflict and humanitarian
intervention, and international bargaining and negotiation.
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Date
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Time
12:15 PM to 1:15 PM
Location
Kelleher Center, Kiernan Suite, Staten Island Campus
More Information
Ri Marchessault
marchesl@stjohns.edu
(718) 390-4082