Breakfast with Wai Wai Nu

Description: Join the Carr Center for a breakfast with Burmese political activist, Wai Wai Nu!

During this breakfast event, Wai Wai Nu will discuss her experiences as a political prisoner in Myanmar, her subsequent human rights activism, and her current work as founder of the Women Peace Network and the Yangon Youth Leadership Center. After that, she will open the floor to audience Q&A. We encourage you to prepare a question or topic to discuss during breakfast!

Pre-registration for this event is required. Please note that this event has limited availability (only 35 seats available) with a running waitlist. Please remove your name from the signup sheet if you are no longer able to attend so those on the waitlist can be notified.

Speaker Bio: After seven years as a political prisoner in Burma, Wai Wai Nu emerged as a prominent voice fighting for equal rights and democracy. In 2013, she founded Women’s Peace Network. Since then, she has tirelessly fought against the political oppression, violence and genocide that’s plagued women, youth and marginalized communities, especially those from the Rakhine State. Her continued peace building efforts have earned her national and international recognition.

Wai Wai Nu received her bachelor’s degree in law (LL.B) from the University of Yangon in Myanmar and her master’s degree in law (LL.M) from the University of Berkeley. She previously served as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women and as an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University of New York. Wai Wai Nu was also a Scholar at the Bush Institute, Liberty and Leadership Forum and Draper Hills Summer Fellow at Stanford University’s CDDRL. Recently, Wai Wai served as a fellow at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Currently, she serves as a visiting scholar with the Human Rights Centre at the University of Berkeley, USA.