Silvie Ojeda

Silvie is the Director of Communications and Advocacy at Metzineres. Metzineres is an innovative, and daring non-profit cooperative providing sheltered environments exclusively for women and gender expansive people, that focus on human rights, gender mainstreaming, and which cover a full spectrum of harm reduction approaches. With both a holistic and individualized framework, Metzineres emphasizes the uniqueness of each womxn and each situation. Access into Metzineres is immediate, with widely flexible responses that take into consideration individual expectations, concerns, interests and needs. Supported by local community strategies, and the social and solidarity-based economy, the Metzineres model aims to be one that provides consistency, is reliable, pragmatic, cost effective, and one in which each womxn plays a central role.