Ryan Villarreal
Ryan Villarreal is a news curator for Facebook. Previously, he was a videographer for Columbia University, where he was a production coordinator and assistant editor for an online education project. He has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Ryan Villarreal
- • September 10, 2015
As Colombia leads a group of dozens of nations to promote a woman as the next United Nations secretary-general, when Ban Ki-moon leaves office at the end of 2016, these same voices are also demanding gender equality inside the…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Women
- Ryan Villarreal
- • April 6, 2014
Last year marked major progress toward finding a peaceful resolution for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s achingly long conflict, rooted in decades of civil war, regional incursions, ethnic tensions and resource pilfering. Throughout the many years, women have…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights
- Ryan Villarreal
- • January 8, 2014
For the past three decades, Costa Rica has carried out progressive steps to reduce violence against women, a major inhibitor of human and economic development in the country and throughout Latin America. While the issue has garnered more attention…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Latin America, UN Agencies, Women
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