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Christal

Christal

Communications Manager

Meet Christal! She is ActionAid USA’s Digital Communication Officer, specializing in managing all of our digital platforms and engagement with our grassroots supporters. She joins ActionAid again after more than 10 years since working as a Communications Specialist for ActionAid in Liberia. As a strategic communicator, she is most passionate about positively impacting the lives of marginalized communities.

She has extensive experience working in the non-governmental space, notably the Macmillan Cancer Support, National Deaf Children’s Society, and Missing People in the United Kingdom.

When she’s not queuing up Instagram posts, she is taking photos. She enjoys nature’s beauty and the occasional portrait and event!

Why are you working with ActionAid?  

Three words: equity, equality, and justice. My connection to ActionAid goes way back (nearly a decade!) and that connection is what drove me to join the amazing ActionAid USA team.  

I’m an expert! Talk to me about:  

Women’s Rights; Gender Equality; Storytelling; Social justice.  

 

POSTS BY Christal

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AGRA at COP28: Not the right direction for climate justice

July 21, 2023 By

Food sovereignty and the right to food have often felt pushed to the side in climate spaces, including the COP. While we’ve seen some incremental change, a lot of agriculture related announcements have mostly been… greenwashing. The recent appointment of Agnes Kalibata, the President of AGRA (The Alliance for a…

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Losing everything to water

April 25, 2023 By

Every morning when I was a child, my dad would declare, in a sing-song voice – “There’s nothing like a nice, hot shower!” – as he stepped into the steaming shower and the first deluge of water hit the top of his head. It’s a motto that has stuck with…

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Hi, I’m Katherine! Pleased to meet you!

December 1, 2022 By

I’m ActionAid USA’s new Individual Giving Officer! My main role here is to manage our fundraising stream for donations ranging from $25 all the way up to $1,000 and build personal relationships with our supporters. I joined the team a couple of weeks ago, and when I was asked to…

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New myths and new colonial land grabs

November 23, 2022 By

Many of us are still learning how to celebrate the harvest holiday of Thanksgiving with a new understanding of our history that embraces our collective future without relying on a national myth that has covered up the reality of land grabbing and genocide.   We must recognize and stop the new…

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It’s time to expose the false illusion of net zero

November 8, 2022 By

If you have been following the activities at COP27, then you know that Tuesday was a big day for Net Zero (or maybe I should say exposure of what it really is). The UN High-Level Expert Group on Net Zero, led by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, released its report in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. My colleagues have…

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Can we have dignity in a world that crosses ecological limits?

October 21, 2022 By

On Wednesday, I drove down to the University of Kentucky (UK) for a fireside chat with the new President and CEO of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Thasunda Brown Duckett. Why?   We wrote her a letter, along with 112 other organizations, in the fall of 2021…

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It’s not a freaking handbag

October 11, 2022 By

The Guardian has the latest exhibit of “Corporations don’t care if you die” in a story about Big Pharma objecting to a South African company replicating Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine: Moderna has filed several patents in South Africa and has refused to cooperate and share technology with the hub in Africa,…