Episode 15 part 1: Legacy series with Everjoice Win

Legacy Series

Welcome to the launch of our legacy series. The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time

About this episode

This inaugural episode is a four-part conversation with Everjoice Win or as she popularly known EJ. Awino Okech talks to EJ over four episodes about her life, feminism and legacy. Episode 15 part 1 is a deep dive into the life, work and legacy of Everjoice Win.

Bio

EJ has been active in feminist and social justice movements in her country, Zimbabwe, the African continent and globally for over 35 years. She has worked extensively from very rooted community-based development programs to national, to regional and global levels. Some of the organisations in which she has held very senior leadership roles include Women’s Action Group-Zimbabwe, the Pan-African network, Women in Law and Development in Africa, (WiLDAF), Oxfam-Canada, and ActionAid International. Most recently she was Executive Director of the Shine Campaign, (now Shine Collab). Besides formal roles EJ volunteers her time on various NGO boards, provides support and accompaniment to leaders in the non-profit sector and their organisations or movements particularly on; strategic thinking, movement building, feminist popular education, feminist leadership, understanding, navigating and transforming power, as well as generating learning and knowledge.

Everjoice is an alumnus of the first Women’s Leadership Institute held at the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, which conceptualized the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. She is a graduate from the University of Zimbabwe where she studied Economic History. Between 2020 and 2022, Everjoice served as Professor of Practice-Women’s Rights at SOAS University of London. A writer, and social media influencer, EJ contributes to various print and online publications.

Credits

Interviewer:Awino Okech

Interviewee: Everjoice Win

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing, and additional scripting: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde