During times of great intolerance, how do we find resilience and the desire to reconcile with one another? Hear the admirable story of one woman's journey from being turned into a Genocide survivor to becoming an advocate and join a larger discussion of what it means to come together during and after trauma.
April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month and we will be commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi.
Please join us on April 28th for our engaging virtual conversation, Reaching for Reconciliation. Consolee Nishimwe, Author & Activist, and Adam Strom, Director of Re-Imagining Migration, will discuss Nishimwe's book, Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope, her experiences as a survivor immigrating to the U.S. and building a life in her new home, and the potential for connection even during the most dire circumstances.
Your ticket will include entry to the event, a recording of the conversation, and a complimentary copy of Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope.
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Time: 12PM EST
Location: Virtual Event
Price: $20, including book
The Speakers
Consolee Nishimwe
Author and Activist
Consolee Nishimwe is an Author, a Motivational Speaker and a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda when she was fourteen years old. She suffered physical and emotional torture during her three months in hiding and miraculously survived with her mother and younger sister.
Today, Consolee is a committed speaker on the genocide, a defender of women rights and an advocate for other genocide survivors.
Consolee released her memoir Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope.
In recognition of her courage and accomplishments, Consolee was awarded the 2013 ASALH (The Study of African American Life and History) Living Legacy Award, What better looks like Award, and the recognition award from New York City Council. She was hailed by the Together for Girls Organization in SAFE Magazine Issue #1, as one of 50 Global Heroes who help stop sexual violence against children.
Consolee has been featured on FOX 5 TV New York, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, Voice of America, UN Africa Renewal Magazine, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Women's Media Center, The Salt Lake Tribune, Observer, several radio programmes and University newspapers and other media outlets worldwide.
Consolee has appeared as a panelist, speaker at the United Nations, educational institutions, faith-based communities, conferences and more. She has also addressed the UN General Assembly.
Consolee has been an active supporter of Komera for many years and serves on the Komera Advisory Board.
Consolee currently lives in New York.
Adam Strom
Re-Imagining Migration Director
Adam Strom is the Director of Re-Imagining Migration. Throughout his career, Mr. Strom has connected the academy to classrooms and the community by using the latest scholarship to encourage learning about identity, bias, belonging, history, and the challenges and opportunities of civic engagement in our globalized world. The resources developed under Strom’s direction have been used in tens of thousands of classrooms and experienced by millions of students around the world including Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World and What Do We Do with a Difference? France and The Debate Over Headscarves in Schools, Identity, and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain, and the viewer’s guide to I Learn America. Before joining the Re-imagining Migration Project, Strom was the Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves.