Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Monique Clesca, author of Silence and Resistance: Memoir of a Girlhood in Haiti, about reckoning with family secrets, healing, and fighting for Haitian children’s rights.

Monique Clesca is an activist, journalist, and advocate for children’s and women’s rights, participating in high-level policy issues in Haiti and Africa and offering holistic support to girls and women who have suffered domestic and sexual violence. For leading a movement to eliminate child marriage, Monique received the Commander in the Niger Order of Merit in 2016 from the President of Niger. In 2016, Monique also retired from the United Nations to work as an international consultant and continue her work as a leading voice on feminism, democracy, ,and social justice in Haiti. She has spoken at many universities and as a guest on Democracy Now, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, and Black News. She has been published in The New York Times, the Miami Herald, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and many others.

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