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JACQUELINE MUREKATETE
Since conducting her first presentations while she was still in high school, Jacqueline has conducted more than 300 presentations at schools, universities, faith-based communities, and international forums across the US, and in Germany, Israel, Bosnia, and Belgium. Through her presentations to the United Nations General Assembly and other UN groups, events, and publications, she has reached audiences around the world. Independently and with fellow genocide and Holocaust survivors, Jacqueline challenges people around the world to remember, to fight indifference, and to peacefully coexist. The worldwide press brought her voice to an even greater audience through features in the New York Times, the U.N Chronicle, the Washington Times, Newsday, People, Glamour, Teen Vogue, NPR, Voice of America, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, MTV-U, Polo Ralph Lauren GIVE campaign, and other leading and local media outlets worldwide. For her work, Jacqueline has received such prestigious awards as the Global Peace and Tolerance Award from Friends of the United Nations, the Scandinavian Sprit Award (2003) and the Moral Courage Award (2008) from the American Jewish Committee, The Ina Kay Award from the Anti-Defamation League; an honorary award from New York University at the 175th commencement ceremony, and the United Nations International Peace Ambassadors’ outstanding humanitarian award. Most recently, Jacqueline became the youngest recipient of The Ellis Island Medal of Honor from NECO, which recognizes individuals of various origins who have made outstanding contributions to the world and who have made a significant and positive impact in the American society. In constant demand for speaking engagements and projects around the world, Jacqueline inspires everyone, from young children to heads of state, celebrity activists and profoundly traumatized genocide survivors, to turn hope into positive action and to keep creating a more tolerant world—a world where the crime of genocide can one day be a crime of the past—where Never Again is transformed from promise to practice, from hope to reality. Toward that end, Jacqueline serves as program director of Jacqueline’s Human Rights corner, a genocide prevention program she founded in April 2007, under the umbrella of Miracle Corners of the World (MCW), an internationally respected non-profit organization based in New York City. In partnership with MCW, Jacqueline’s Human Rights Corner is currently developing genocide prevention education curriculums for young people, and building a community center in Rwanda where genocide survivors will convene to empower themselves and each other to rebuild their lives and become agents of positive change in their country and around the world. |
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