Storytelling as activism: Interview with our CEO Taban

After our CEO Taban recently attended a Women, Peace and Security conference in the Hague with our partners Cordaid, the organisation has published a great article on the power of storytelling in activism.

In it, Taban refers to her own journey and her recognition that conveying uniquely personal stories was always going to be a major part of the Lotus Flower’s mission.

She says: “I knew that storytelling was going to be a big foundation of how to move it forward and I utilised my own personal lived experience to really help us push that narrative through.”

Photo by Mickael Franci

The conference was part of Cordaid’s Women Voices First programme, which has established partnerships with more than 30 Iraqi civil society organizations (CSOs) and women’s rights organizations (WROs) to advance the WPS agenda, with a strong emphasis on localised support.

You can read the full piece with Taban here.