Who Does She Think She Is!

Warrior for Women’s Rights

Speaker, Author

Consultant

Executive Director, Women’s Centers International

Member – International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP)

SBL Speaker Dossier Nov 2019

View her latest video HERE

NEW BOOK by Susan Burgess-Lent

Trouble Ahead: Dangerous Missions with Desperate People

These are the stories of a woman’s fifteen solo journeys to places that, for awhile, riveted public attention because of their terrifying and elaborate violence: Rwanda, Darfur, the slums of Kenya. Witness, enabler and critic, Susan worked just outside the corporate web of humanitarian aid. Her journals explore ‘what happens after’ a crisis – the grief, resilience, and astonishing aspirations of people struggling to recover. She reveals, through unblinking observations, the nuances of cultures and tragedies that have defined the world of humanitarian relief

Out of these missions grew the author’s inspiration for Women’s Centers International, a movement to respond to the global wildfire of women’s needs.

Trouble Ahead offers new ways to think about how we can help when it’s needed. And compassionate help is always needed … somewhere.

Available at Amazon in paperback and e-book.

Taking the Cutoff

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 by Susan Burgess-Lent, posted in About Women, WCI

The Donner Party’s fiasco in the Sierras grew from two bad decisions. One was to take an new untested ‘cutoff’ from the main trail. The other was getting a late start over forbidding mountains where an early and brutal winter awaited. When asked about lessons learned, one surviving Donner party member offered: “Don’t take no … Continue reading Taking the Cutoff

Evidence Pileup

September 7, 2019September 6, 2019 by Susan Burgess-Lent, posted in About Women, Howling Women, WCI

I felt slammed by an article this week. It radicalized – even further – my belief that too many women in the US are laboring under the illusion that we don’t need to fight for basic rights. The article, An Epidemic of Disbelief by Barbara Bradley Hagerty in the August 2019 issue of The Atlantic, … Continue reading Evidence Pileup

Kenya on my mind

August 11, 2019 by Susan Burgess-Lent, posted in Baraka Women's Center, Who Does She Think She Is?

Reflections on my time here in Kenya: Nairobi on the cheap is less than fun but tolerable. The city is all noise and hard surfaces; dust constantly swept and wiped, glass seldom clear, lighting never kind, no trash cans (which explains the mess on the streets), and drivers executing terrifying maneuvers. This is the part … Continue reading Kenya on my mind

Baraka SoS

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 by Susan Burgess-Lent, posted in Baraka Women's Center, Strange days

How to convey the oeuvre of Nairobi? The fulminating heap of humans tumbling through their dusty days, industrious as army ants. Speed bumps and pedestrians crossings on freeways. Gridlocked traffic into town all day. I’ve developed an aversion to traveling anywhere in a vehicle, knowing that I will sit in the heat and exhaust for up … Continue reading Baraka SoS

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