Women PeaceMakers Student Event

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Conference Room EF

Free

University of San Diego students are invited to connect with Women PeaceMakers! Join us for an interactive afternoon with the 2025 Women PeaceMakers Fellows to explore the theme of Invisible Borders: how barriers shape our lives and how connection, creativity, and reflection can help us move beyond them. The event will feature a student-led panel, interactive activities, and space for dialogue and reflection.

Lunch will be provided! Contact the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice ipj@sandiego.edu if you have any questions or accessibility needs. 

Learn more about this year's Women PeaceMakers

Estefanía Castañeda Pérez is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). Her research investigates how Latinx communities experience the law through policing and surveillance systems, and the consequences of these experiences on their racialization, well-being, and legal consciousness. She has been active in advocating for migrant and transborder communities by providing expert training on the transborder experience at local and national academic and government agencies. She also developed a Community Action Project aimed at empowering Transfronteriza women through RISE San Diego’s Urban Leadership Fellowship.

Lilian Olivia Orero is a Gender and Technology Lawyer and the Founder of SafeOnline Women Kenya (SOW-Kenya). She works to combat technology-facilitated gender-based violence through legal advocacy, feminist policy reform and digital innovation, including overseeing the AI-powered "SafeHer" app. Olivia challenges the gendered architecture of digital spaces, reframing them as platforms for peacebuilding and safety rather than control and harm.

Noemy Molina is a human rights lawyer and researcher with over 20 years of experience promoting the rights of women and vulnerable groups through international cooperation and collaborative advocacy. Her expertise includes gender-sensitive and diversity-focused approaches to research, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, civic space protection, and ensuring equitable access to justice. She has specialized in dialogue methodologies, conflict transformation, and multi-stakeholder consensus-building, to co-create sustainable and peaceful solutions to systemic challenges. In El Salvador, where civic space has faced increasing restrictions, she has led collaborative advocacy efforts aimed at transforming legal and public policy frameworks to advance human rights protections.