Yifat Susskind Biography

The executive director of MADRE, Yifat Susskind, collaborates with women's rights advocates from Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to develop community-based initiatives that address immediate needs and affect long-lasting change. Yifat, a lifetime advocate for human rights, oversees MADRE's integrated strategy of neighborhood alliances and global human rights activism. Under Yifat's direction, MADRE has helped thousands of local women's rights activists survive and recover from conflict, climate collapse, and their aftereffects in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Colombia, Haiti, Sudan, Nepal, and the Philippines, and other places. Women all throughout the world rebuild their lives and communities in collaboration with MADRE, speaking up in the halls of power, from village councils to the UN Security Council. Think Like a Mother, Yifat's first TED Talk of 2019, has received over 1.9 million views. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Harvard International Review, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics, among other publications, has published her articles. In-depth analyst Yifat has been on CNN, NPR, and BBC Radio.

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