Lucia D. Pascale SOLAGES is a grassroots feminist organizer passionate about improving the lives of Haitian Women and Girls. With over 10 years of experience, Pascale’s advocacy work exists at the intersections of feminist movement building, reproductive justice, end of violence against women, effective participation of Women in Public Affairs and globally promoting a feminist society.
She is experienced in developing projects and programs for changing conditions of lives of Women, documenting women’s experiences, design thinking, project building and management with special expertise in Gender and Development.
She is a founding member and general coordinator of the feminist organization NÈGÈS MAWON – one of Haiti’s most active feminist organizations fighting for the rights of women and girls.
She is a human rights advocate and embraces all progressive social justice and human rights issues in Haiti, such as LGBT rights, abortion rights, good governance, etc.
She co-founded in 2018, the collective of committed citizens NOU PAP DÒMI for social justice, against corruption and impunity from the mobilization movement against corruption “PETROCARIBECHALLENGE” in Haiti.
In Haiti, she was a consultant for UNFPA, PLAN INTERNATIONAL, WORLD VISION and many other institutions. She has held key positions within the Haitian government as the consultant for gender-based violence at the Ministry for Women’s Affairs and Women’s Rights and she served as a Gender and Development Advisor to two Minister’s cabinet of the same ministry. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the TOYA Foundation, a women’s organization of which she is a member since 2009. She represented the women’s sector for two years in the Multisectoral Coordination Committee of the Global Fund in Haiti for HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Today, she travels the world as an advocate, building bridges to talk about the realities of Haitian women and advance their rights. She’s a consultant now for international feminist organizations like Black Feminist Future, Equality Fund, South Feminist Future and others.
She is a Multi-Award winning Feminist Organizer. Her last awards were from “The Haitian Women Collective” in New York in 2022, from “The Frontline” in North Carolina in 2022 and the “Island Icon” from Little Haiti BK and Carib Biz Network in New York in 2024.
She is also a political woman. She is a former candidate in the municipal elections of Port-au-Prince (Haiti) in 2015.
While continuing to run her organization in Haiti, she also works now as program manager for a non-profit organization in New York, where she engages, provides community-based support and linkage to Haitian migrants.
She worked for over a decade in television and radio as a presenter and executive producer. She worked for Television Nationale d’Haiti, Radio Magik 9, Radio Television Caraïbes, Tele Haiti in Haiti and Guadeloupe 1ère in Guadeloupe. As a journalist, she has focused on social issues as prostitution, HIV AIDS, violence against women, the rights of the LGBTQI+ community, Haitian and Caribbean culture and much more. She’s also a filmmaker and producer. She’s currently directing her first documentary about femicide in Haiti.
She has a finance degree from Quisqueya University, a diploma in gender and development obtained in Belgium. She also has a certificate in human rights education obtained in Canada. Now, she is doing a master’s degree in International Affairs at The New School in New York.
She’s passionate about politics and advancing a vision of Haitian feminism through advocacy at all levels, from the interpersonal to the global. She is passionately driven by the need to protect human rights for those currently marginalized.
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