Meet our Bloggers!

Miriam Pérez, Editor 

 Miriam is a recent Swarthmore College graduate, with a B.A. in Anthropology, and minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies. While at Swarthmore, she was an active member of the pro-choice and feminist movements on campus, as well as a sexual health counselor. She focused her academic study on traditional and alternative birth practices, working both with midwives in Ecuador as well as women in the United States. Miriam is a trained doula, and blogs about birthing rights and other related things at Radical Doula. She is also a contributor at Feministing.com. She is NLIRH’s Senior Advocacy Associate.

Cesarina Paula, Contributor

 Cesarina graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies.  Since the age of 16, she has volunteered and worked at non-profit organizations such as NOW-NYC and the V-Day College Campaign.  Her primary focus has been on women’s rights, particularly reproductive and sexual rights, both on a national and international level.  Cesarina has also focused on adolescents’ right to comprehensive sexuality education.  Before coming to NLIRH, she worked at the International Women’s Health Coalition as the Program Assistant for the Latin America and Africa Programs. At NLIRH, Cesarina is primarily responsible for coordinating fundraising activities, as well as coordinating and managing media and communications work as the Communications/Development Associate.

Verónica Bayetti Flores, Contributor 

 Verónica is a Venezuelan immigrant who is currently procuring much debt while studying sexuality and health.  She is obsessed with ending poverty and wealth, believes that health is a human right, and spends too much money on arts and crafts. She is currently NLIRH’s Research Assistant.

Edith González, Contributor

 Edith González is a NYU kid that tries to take advantage of the many opportunities the city has to offer. In that, she feels very privileged to be part of past and current non-profit organizations like AmeriCorps, University Settlement, Visiting Neighbors, Deep Dish TV, and clearly the NLIRH. She has strong interests in global politics, reproductive justice, LGBT advocacy, and immigration. Moreover, her Migrant Farm Worker laboring of the past has enabled Edith to long desire and hopefully become an ‘organic intellectual’. She is the spring Policy and Communications Intern.

Raquel Namuche, Contributor

Raquel Namuche got her first first-hand glimpses into feminism and grassroots activism while attending Radical Women meetings and distributing issues of the Freedom Socialist Newspaper with radical activist Emily Woo Yamasaki in her early teens to weary passersby in New York City’s Cooper Square.  She has been greatly influenced by a lot of the activism that came out of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late ’90s and protested the eviction of CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center along with other supporters.  Raquel was an active and dedicated member of the first incarnation of the Street Harassment Project, an organization that focuses on fighting the harassment of women by men in public spaces.  Through her involvement with the Street Harassment Project, she started to connect the dots of sexism in a much deeper way, learning how issues like street harassment, sexual assault, and all other women’s human rights issues are all interconnected. She is currently NLIRH’s community mobilization intern.