Jane Thirikwa
About Jane Thirikwa
Jane Thirikwa is the global partnerships co-ordinator at KAIROS Canada. She has extensive expertise and experience in social justice work, including gender equality and women’s empowerment, women’s human rights, advocacy and fundraising for grassroots organizations. She has worked within Kenya’s civil society, in the U.S.A. and Canada. Jane is a gender and women’s studies graduate from York University and is also an Atlas Corps and Human Rights Campaign Fellow (2014).
Climate change’s assault on ecosystems is violence against women
To be truly feminist, Canada must fully consult women — particularly land and water defenders — to lay the groundwork for community-driven and inclusive clean energy economies, writes Jane Thirikwa with KAIROS Canada.