[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#df8244″ custom_padding=”1px||3px|||” saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”12px||9px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/24may.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/J.-Jarpa-Dawuni-Esq.-Ph.D.png” title_text=”J. Jarpa Dawuni, Esq., Ph.D.” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”80%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”12px” header_font_size=”25px” custom_margin=”-7px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Speaker<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”12px” header_font_size=”25px” custom_margin=”-7px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 11:00 | Breaking the Cycle: Institutionalized Workplace Harassment, Discrimination & the Essential Role of Intersectionality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_text=”Discover her message” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Poppins|300|||||||” text_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”10px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n J. Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She is a qualified Barrister-at-Law before the Superior Courts of Ghana. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Georgia State University. Her primary areas of research and advocacy include law and development, judicial politics, women and the legal professions, gender and the law, international human rights, democratization and women\u2019s civil society organizing. Her books include; Intersectionality and Women\u2019s Access to Justice in Africa<\/em><\/a><\/span> (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa: Selected Cases<\/em><\/a><\/span> (Routledge, 2021), International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives<\/em><\/a><\/span> (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Judge Akua Kuenyehia and Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity<\/em><\/a><\/span>?<\/em>(Routledge, 2016), co-edited with Gretchen Bauer.<\/p>\n She is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Institute for African Women in Law<\/a><\/span>. <\/span>She is the Founding Director of the Howard University Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership<\/a><\/span> made possible by a $1million gift in 2020. She is a multi-award winner. In 2022, she was the proud recipient of two WOZA Women in Law Awards\u2014Global Transformation Leadership<\/em> and Best in Thought Leadership, Innovation and Academia<\/em> awards. In 2020, she received the \u00a0Women in Law-Austria Justitia Awards in the International Academic<\/a><\/span> category for her scholar-activism in advancing women\u2019s rights and women\u2019s issues in law. In 2021, she was named by Courtroom Mail-Nigeria in their top 100 women law<\/a><\/span> firm owners for her work in promoting global awareness of African Women in Law through research, mentoring and advocacy.<\/p>\n In 2016, she was the recipient of President Obama\u2019s Volunteer and Service Award for her work on the Board of the African Research Academies for Women. She is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a Fulbright Scholar, a Carnegie African Diaspora Scholar, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS), and a Fellow at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana. She has been a Visiting Professor in the UNESCO Peace Masters Program at the University of Jaume 1 in Castellon, Spain, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. She was a Visiting Scholar at Queens University, Kingston, Canada in 2018, and the University of Copenhagen iCourts Program in Denmark in 2015. She sits on several boards, including the African Studies Association.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/24may.org\/en\/geneva2025\/” button_text=”Back to program” button_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”12px” button_border_width=”3px” button_font=”|800|||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J. Jarpa Dawuni, Esq., Ph.D. Speaker11:00 | Breaking the Cycle: Institutionalized Workplace Harassment, Discrimination & the Essential Role of Intersectionality.J. Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She is a qualified Barrister-at-Law before the Superior Courts of Ghana. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Georgia State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n