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Amy Logan
Global Expert on "Honor Killings", Activist, Author, Filmmaker, & Women Empowerment Expert
A global women’s human rights activist, Amy Logan is on a mission to empower women and girls through her filmmaking, non-profit board leadership, advocacy, campaigning, research, storytelling, writing, public speaking, leadership development and coaching.
Amy is featured in and the Consulting Producer of “The Price of Honor”, a multi-award-winning 2014 documentary about the US “honor killings” of two teen sisters that galvanized the FBI to put the suspected fugitive-father, Yaser Said, on their Top 10 Most Wanted List. In 2015, Amy presented the film and moderated a panel discussion in the US Capitol about “honor violence” in America, sponsored by three Congresswomen with the Justice Department releasing their first-ever study on American honor violence in the US at the event.
Amy is President of the U.S. National Committee for UN Women, San Francisco Bay Chapter. She speaks and screens her films frequently and gave a talk, “It Hasn’t Always Been a Man’s World”, at TEDxSacramento, about her discovery of a secret to empower women along her journey to overcome gender-based violence.
She is the author of The Seven Perfumes of Sacrifice, a novel about the search for the ancient, lost origins of honor killing in the Middle East lauded by former Egyptian First Lady Jihan Sadat, author/activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Publisher’s Weekly. Amy has written for Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, among many others.
Amy also serves on the Advisory Boards of the documentary, “Honor Diaries”, George Mason University’s Women’s E-Learning in Leadership Project, the Muslim American Leadership Alliance, and the non-profit organization Women’s Voices Now, that helps empower women living in Muslim-majority societies.
As an independent scholar and speaker, Amy has presented her work on “honor violence” at the UN Foundation,The International Women's Forum, New York University’s Global Secularisms conference, Oxford University’s Women’s Leadership Symposium, The International Feminist Journal of Politics’ Gender and Crisis in Global Politics conference at the University of Southern California, and the Gender and the Law conference at Dokuz Eylul University and Gediz University in Izmir, Turkey.
Amy is Executive Coach for Learning as Leadership, a thirty-year-old leadership development and culture change firm near San Francisco where she works with executives in government agencies, the private sector and non-profits. A Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with advanced coach training in the neuroscience of human transformation, she also coaches young female leaders for The Coaching Fellowship.
Speech Topics
Honor Violence in the USA & Beyond: The Pandemic We Can't Talk About
Activist, author and filmmaker Amy Logan will offer her perspective from 20 years studying and challenging a global and local, pervasive and insidious form of violence against women – so-called “honor violence”. This traditional practice can include threats, harassment, stalking, false imprisonment, sexual/physical/verbal/emotional abuse, forced and child marriage, female genital mutilation and “honor killing”. There are 800 million women and girls living in cultures under the “honor code” globally – and immigrants from these societies in the USA are no exception. 20,000+ females are murdered annually for “honor” and many times more suffer related crimes, yet this pandemic isn’t considered a crisis worthy of world leaders’ priority. Much “honor violence” happens under the radar, most perpetrators go unpunished – and are even celebrated as heroes – and the issue is still taboo to directly confront in many places. American “honor violence”, like domestic violence 30 years ago, is mostly hidden, unknown by law enforcement and unchallenged. Amy will explore the origins of “honor violence”, the current landscape, the obstacles to addressing it and what needs to be done to end this scourge. A two-time survivor of gender-based violence, Amy will also share how she moved beyond victimhood through her art, research and activism by uncovering a secret that could empower women worldwide.
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