Mallah Tabot, a double-graduate of Coady Institute, has been recognized as one of Cameroon's most influential young women leaders. She has won a Queen's Young Leader's award, and most recently, won a United Nations World Summit award for digital innovation. Her team at United Vision developed a popular sex education app for smartphones called Ndolo360. Mallah credits her Coady education for helping her continue to progress as a leader in her country.

Links:

United Vision organization:http://uvcameroon.org/index.php/about/team/mallah-tabot

Ndolo360 app website: http://www.ndolo360.com/

Coady Institute Certificate in Advocacy: Increasing Citizen Voice and Agency, October 26 - Nov 10, 2017: 

http://coady.stfx.ca/education/certificates/increasing_citizen_voice/

2010 Diploma in Development Leadership graduate Amanda Lindhout talks about her kidnapping in Somalia, her award-winning book 'A House in the Sky', the value of International Women's Week, along with memories of her time at Coady Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Ms. Lindhout was interviewed by Olga Gladkikh.

Show notes:

01:00 The day she arrived for Coady's diploma program in 2010.

03:20 Why she started the Global Enrichment Foundation to educate women and children in Somalia.

05:46 Coady as "the best in Canada" for leadership education.

06:47 Her memoir: A House in the Sky.

10:30 The value of International Women's Week.

12:50 Who inspires her?

14:19 What we can do to address challenges in today's world.

15:45 What's next?

Upcoming courses

As mentioned in the podcast, here are the seven certificate courses being offered on campus this fall. Click on the course name to go to our website. The application deadline is March 31st.

Community-Based Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (October 10 - October 25)

Community-Driven Impact Assessment  (October 10 - October 25)

Facilitation and Training Approaches for Community Change (October 10 - October 25)

Learning Organizations and Change (October 10 - October 25)

Action Research for Citizen-Led Change (October 26 - November 10)

Advocacy: Increasing Citizen Voice and Agency  (October 26 - November 10)

Asset-Based and Citizen-Led Development (October 26 - November 10)

Yogesh Ghore, senior program staff at Coady International Institute, talks about research into market-based solutions to combat extreme poverty, especially among the disabled.

Ghore has teamed up with colleagues at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) and ADD International as part of a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's Inclusive Economies initiative. He recently returned from his second field trip in Uganda.

The project was also the topic of a blog post on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power site at https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/why-davos-should-be-talking-about-disability/

Coady Research Fellow Jaya Luintel has been using community radio in Nepal to amplify the voices of women who have been victimized by conflict.

Luintel was recently awarded the 2016 Tomorrow's Peacebuilders Award at a ceremony in London, England. Her Kitchen Story project was selected from among 244 applicants in 61 countries.

She sat down with Coady Radio host Richard Perry as she was preparing to return to Nepal. 

Senator Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, shares his hopes for the future with students, staff and faculty at St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute. Mr. Sinclair believes the federal and provincial governments need to catch up with the public when it comes to taking action for a stronger Canadian society. Recorded on November 8, 2016.

Renowned Indigenous artist Alan Syliboy talks about using his art for social change. Syliboy is the 2016 Coady Chair in Social Justice at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is the first Indigenous person to hold the annual chair. Syliboy grew up in the Mi'kmaw community of Millbrook First Nation. This audio was recorded during his public presentation 'Art and Social Justice', on October 12, 2016.

Dr. Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain in conversation with Pamela Johnson of Coady International Institute and Amanda Meawasige, Coady graduate and senior health policy analyst with the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. They talk about the value of shared leadership, and whether technology makes it easier to move away from traditional, hierarchical forms of leadership. Also, are traditional Indigenous forms of healthcare becoming mainstream?

Dr. Cunningham Kain is board chair of the Association for Women's Rights in Development, and former chair of the United Nations permanent forum on Indigenous Issues.

Host Richard Perry also promotes the upcoming Coady Celebrates fundraising event in Halifax and the December 5th application deadline for spring certificates and 2017 Diploma in Development Leadership.

Podcast length: 18:13

Richard interviews two Coady graduates, who are joining fellow alumnae and Coady staff at the AWID forum in Brazil, Sept. 8-11, 2016. Amanda Meawasige took the 2011 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program, and now works for the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. Raquel Helen Silva is a graduate of the 2015 Global Change Leaders program. She specializes in social entrepreneurship and works for Thomson Reuters in Brazil.

Pamela Johnson interviews disability rights advocates Steven Estey and partner Anne MacRae. Richard Perry speaks with Naela Refaat of Egypt, who worked with Coady on the Transparency and Accountability in Governance project, funded by the Ford Foundation.