ADULT
DIALOGUE
UNDERSTANDING
Co-operate EDUCATION
Dr Ronit Lentin
LEARNING
Kensika Monshengwo is currently a board member of Calypso Theatre Company; he has been involved in various artistic projects in Ireland including features, shorts and plays.
INTERCULTURAL
Kensika has extensive experience in anti-racism awareness raising in Ireland and has undertaken training with various statutory and non-statutory bodies including the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment, the Equality Authority, the Equality Tribunal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and a variety of health boards, hospitals and government departments.
PEACE
Kensika Monshengwo was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland, the USA and now Ireland. Kensika holds a postgraduate degree in anthropology from the Sorbonne in Paris and presently works as Training and Resource Officer with the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism.
SOCIALLEARNING
Kensika Monshengwo
LEARN
Originally from North Belfast and living in Dublin since 1991, he is author/editor of a number of publications on racism and intercultural approaches integration, including ‘Responding to Racism in Ireland’, (2001) and ‘Racism in Northern Ireland’, (1991) and in 2007, a research project commissioned by the Centre for Cross Border Studies and the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland ‘Improving Government Services to Minority Ethnic Groups in Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland’. Further information available www. nccri.ie.
SOCIAL DIALOGUE
been involved in providing support for the Government’s forthcoming national intercultural education strategy.
Dr Lentin is a senior lecturer in Sociology, director of the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College Dublin. She has published numerous articles on racism in Ireland, gender, and Israel-Palestine. Her recent books include Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (with Robbie McVeigh, 2002), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (with Nahla Abdo 2002), Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (2004), After Optimism? Ireland, Globalisation and Racism (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006), Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007) and Thinking Palestine (2008).
Salome Mbugua Henry Salome is a native of Kenya and has been living in Ireland for the last 14 years. She has over 18 years experience of working with disadvantaged and marginalised groups especially women, children and the youth, in Kenya, Uganda and Ireland. Her background is in social worker and gender equality. Salome is the founder of AkiDwA and currently its national director. As a consultant she has developed and delivered a range of training programs
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