Lauren Levy
PhD Candidate, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (Counseling Psychology)
Generando/ASECSA
El Teja, Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Lauren hopes to create a grassroots effort that educates and empowers all women to fight for equality in Guatemala. She will be spending her summer interning with Generando and ASECSA, based in Guatemala, Mexico. Lauren will be working on a project that will “structure and disseminate programs surrounding medical, legal and psychological care for survivors of sexual assault or family violence,” and hopes to provide psychological services to some women. “With the Cmiel award, I will advance my professional goals while simultaneously contributing to the fight for basic human rights for Latina women: Each of them deserves a life free from the possibility of femicide or other forms of gender violence,” Levy said.
