Sisters Ink …
began as an Incorporated peer coaching and consulting group that was active for about 10 years until 2020. Sisters Ink was made of self-employed women- Meryem Faris, Consultant (Morocco), Dr. Sabrina Beeler-Stucklin, Professor (Switzerland), Dr. Patricia Lopez, Professor (Mexico), Adepeju Jaiyeoba, Social entrepreneur, (Nigeria), Moma Mushtaq, Digital social entrepereneur (Pakistan), Jaya Luintel, Director, StoryKitchen (Nepal), Nanci Lee, Founder (Canada) working toward gender and economic justice. Choice, voice, economic security and control over one's body are inter-related and intersectional. We facilitated strategy, evaluation, and evidence-based policy research in support of the care economy, savings groups, HIV-vulnerable youth and children, financial literacy and to combat trafficking, and gender-based violence for coalitions, global funders and development agencies including Public Health Agency of Canada, IDRC, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MasterCard Foundation.
By 2020, many in the group found full-time positions including Nanci Lee who joined Tatamagouche Centre, a justice and spiritual-oriented retreat centre in Mi’kma’ki/ Nova Scotia. Nanci continues to align with previous work:
gendered equity and anti-oppression practices and policies for organizations
reparative land justice work including Rematriation/land back, community land trusts
governance, particularly how to support different partners or stakeholders to align governance with strategic directions, grounded outcomes and organizational culture/ norms
embodied ways that we can individually and collectively work toward healing and wellness
Who
We Are
Nanci LEE
is a poet, adult educator and analyst committed to networks and alternative economic models that lead to greater voice, choice, rights, gender justice. [Canadian national]
patricia lopez-rodrigqueZ
is an analyst (Phd) committed to inclusive economies and just social policy, participation and asset ownership for vulnerable groups. [Mexican national]
ADEPEJU JAIYEOBA
is an award winning social entrepreneur with specialties across health care, sexual reproductive health and rights as well as economic empowerment of women in African and other low income communities. [Nigerian national]
meryem faris
is a tri-lingual microfinance and gender analyst committed to solutions that ensure gender equity, social performance and impact. [Moroccan national]
MOMAL Mushtaq
is a social entrepreneur and women's rights activist who believes in empowering women and other marginal groups through digital solutions. [Pakistani national]
BARBARA CHISANGANO
uses community centred approaches to work with marginalized populations particularly women and children to advance their aspirations and wellbeing. [Zambian national]
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