Lilia Smyth on Clubhouse

Bio

Children’s Rights | Youth Empowerment | Anti-Exploitation and Trafficking | Survivor Centered Development 💪

Youth are the future - they deserve to be centered in conversations and movements concerning their lives and futures!
❌ abolitionist
❌ foster care, global orphan care, and juvenile justice reform advocate
❌anti-institutionalization of children
✅family preservation, family care, CBAI

⭐️BLACK LIVES MATTER
⭐️Disability Rights
⭐️LGBTQ+ Rights + Inclusion

🎓BA International Studies, major African Studies focus Children’s Rights

👩‍💻 currently writing about orphanage trafficking in East Africa, US JJ involved girls and the CSA-Prison Pipeline

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Fun stuff about me:

🏳️‍🌈 🧡🤍💖 She/her

🌍 I love learning about other places, cultures, and perspectives, and traveling when I can! 🇺🇸🇪🇸🇯🇴🇷🇺🇫🇮🇳🇱🇺🇬🇹🇿

📚 I love learning languages!
I speak: 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇷🇺
I am learning: 🇸🇦 🇰🇪 🇳🇱
(And I need to practice all of them!😅)

🎭 I’m a huge theatre nerd! Especially musical theatre! My latest show obsession is Love in Hate Nation (I mean c’mon youth empowerment, JJ, civil rights and a lesbian love story all in one musical! 😍)

In quarantine I’ve been: doing yoga, reading memoirs, staring at walls during existential crises, dancing alone in my room, and getting addicted to tiktok

Talk to me about what you’re reading these days! My current rotation:
-The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
-Coretta by Coretta Scott King