EMPOWERMENT COLLECTIVE

On October 22nd and 23rd, Empowerment Collective’s Founder and Program Director, Nasreen Sheikh and Sahin Pravin, attended the 10th Annual Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE). FITCE welcomed local and international companies to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a unique opportunity to engage high-level government leaders, international trade experts, and delegations from around the world and participate in dialogues relating to international trade, foreign direct investment, and...

On October 11th, 2025, Grace Farms publicly unveiled a portrait of Empowerment Collective’s Founder, Nasreen Sheikh, along with a symphony crafted to musically convey Nasreen’s journey from survivor to globally-impactful advocate.   The portrait, hand-painted by artist Hannah Rose Thomas, was created using egg tempera paint mixed from natural pigments — a technique traditionally used for religious art. Thomas’s use of iconography and early Renaissance painting techniques and gold leaf for...

This October, Empowerment Collective (virtually) attended two UN Constructive Dialogues within the series of five Constructive Dialogues for the Review Mechanism of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), which took place in person in Vienna, Austria.   The Constructive Dialogues are dialogues between non-governmental stakeholders and State Parties on the five topics of the Working Groups to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC): (i)...