Greetings listeners!

Welcome back to our EMPOWER Podcast!

We are embarking on Season 2 of our podcast, and we are proud to spotlight Ms. Angelica Bidlack, a passionate advocate for social and environmental justice and Founder of Themis Magazine, an online publication designed to amplify the voices of young people.

Read more about Angelica below:

Angelica Bidlack is a dedicated student based in Boston. She is the founder of Themis Magazine, a vibrant online publication tailored by and for the youth. Angelica's vision extends to the Global Fashion Exchange Youth Program, a groundbreaking platform facilitating collaborative efforts among young individuals to instigate transformative shifts within the fashion industry. Passionate about empowering young minds, her mission is to create accessible opportunities for young people to drive meaningful change in their chosen fields and advocate for social justice.

Check out Themis Magazine on Instagram

Also, check out the Global Fashion Exchange and visit them on Instagram as well!

We are back for episode two of our series in commemoration of the United Nations International Day for People of African Descent! Listen in as Ikram, Brenda, and I talk with Dr. Barbara G. Reynolds, Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on the importance of the International Day for People of African Descent, the International Decade for People of African Descent, the role of Member States in promoting the Decade, and addressing racial inequality through an intersectional lens.

Ms. Reynolds is the Vice-President for Administration, Advancement and Planning at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago. She served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Guyana from August 2014 to September 2019. Prior to this, Ms Reynolds was Head of Education for Save the Children UK, after having spent the previous two decades with UNICEF in programme, management and representational roles at Headquarters and country offices. Ms. Reynolds began her professional career as a teacher and continues to be involved in education. She Co-Chairs the CARICOM Digital Skills Task Force and is a Member of the Independent Technical Advisor Panel for the Global Partnership for Education. She is an active human rights professional, and an experienced human rights and gender mainstreaming facilitator. She holds a BA Education (Caribbean Union College), MA in Curriculum and Teaching (Howard University), the Post-Graduate Diploma in Distance Education (University of London) EdD in International Education Development/Curriculum and Instruction (Columbia University) and the MSt in International Human Rights Law (University of Oxford). Ms Reynolds’ second working language is Portuguese. Mandate of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent