Sylvia Yu Friedman on Clubhouse

Bio

Author of Penguin Book, A LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE: STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES IN ASIA. Award-winning filmmaker and connector. Working on a feature film.

***Open to collaborations, partnerships & podcast interviews.***

Connect with me on www.LinkedIn.com/in/SylviaYu

BIO:
Since 2005 Sylvia has managed and directed millions of dollars to major humanitarian portfolios impacting at least more than one million people. This work has given her access to many influential networks in different countries.

For years, Sylvia has been using her filmmaking and communication skills to mobilize people and resources to help those suffering in the most marginalized places.

Sylvia is the author of 2 books, Silenced No More: Voices of Comfort Women, the only journalistic account of historical Japanese military sex slavery during WWII, and Heart and Soul: The Life Story of Pastor Augustus Chao.

After ten years of intensive research and interviewing elderly survivors, academics, lawyers and activists in different nations, Sylvia is considered a global expert on “comfort women” military sex slavery. She’s been interviewed or featured on the BBC, CNN, SCMP, the Globe and Mail, CGTN, among others, and covered widely in Asia and the Chinese media.

Sylvia led a Hong Kong–based movement of “passionate compassion” against human trafficking that involved more than 120 churches, NGOs, and organizations and later expanded to other nations like Malaysia, China, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S.
Through more than fifty-five slavery awareness events, her team reached more than 25,000 people in eighteen months in universities, schools, and major corporations like Goldman Sachs.

Sylvia is married to Matthew Friedman, a renowned global expert on slavery, the CEO of The Mekong Club, and former United Nations director and U.S. diplomat. Together in the summer of 2016 they gave 113 presentations in 27 U.S. cities. She and Matthew are based in Hong Kong.