Indira Kajosevic Skoric

Feb 12

Indira Kajosevic Skoric

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C0-director, Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network

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A Life of Activism and Advocacy: Supporting Exiles and Survivors of Sexual Violence

The Women’s Court and Gender Justice after the Last Wars in the Western Balkans

Indira K. Skoric holds a Ph.D. in human development from Fielding Graduate University and two master’s degrees, in international relations and gender studies). She attended the Fielding Graduate University (classes/workshops, took basic courses, and trainings with Charlie Seashore of NTL and Cathy Royal in 2003)… Also with Frank Barrett and Fred Stier on  Appreciative Inquiry.

In her day-to-day work (strategic plannings, workshops, etc.) with the community organizations (see balkansnet.com/prostor.html), women’s led groups and development organizations, Indira has regularly practiced and used appreciative inquiry on every step of their development (the Thin Book of AI is must reading for all people I work). She’s been instrumental in introducing AI practice, maintain and co-facilitate training, workshops, strategic planing, etc… From a scholar-practitioner place, she is working on a book project to document the AI practice thorough the view of  participants in a community organization with documented and undocumented immigrants. She is currently working with the Episcopal Relief and Development where they employ AI in all their international programs work on all levels (decision making to weekly meetings, and work with numerous partners).
As a Fielding alum, Indira gets to take part in some informal group of practitioners, and she’s subscribed to the International newsletter of AI best practice. She is looking forward to some new challenges in her scholarly contribution to the field and practice.

Additionally, Indira is an adjunct assistant professor at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College and Guttman Community College, where she launched the Immigration HUB, started an immigrant women’s support group, founded Immigration Day, and participated in the Brooklyn Public Scholars Project. She is also an adjunct professor at SUNY/Plattsburgh. Indira has extensive development experience with large organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration, and advises a number of community-based and women-led groups and organizations, including the Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network and Women in Black. Her work has been recognized through awards and fellowships: a Revson Fellowship (Columbia University), the Union Square Award for Organizing in New York City, and an AAUW Fellowship. In 2013, she was awarded the President’s Voluntary Service Award by President Barack Obama. Indira is working on two book projects: on gender and sexual violence in war, and on women and immigration. And she is the mother of a 12-year-old athlete and avid snowboarder.

Education and Professional Experience:

PhD Fielding Graduate University

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