Olga Abizaid

Olga Abizaid has worked with WIEGO in a variety of roles since 2014. Currently, she provides support to WIEGO’s work in Colombia, Peru and Senegal to strengthen, and give visibility to, informal workers organizations. This entails documenting the challenges and progress made by informal workers’ organizations at the municipal level to improve livelihoods, especially those of women workers. She has also engaged in fieldwork to document the needs of informal women waste pickers in Ecuador, as they relate to gender and workers´ health issues. Before joining WIEGO, Olga worked at the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), where she led research on North American integration and directed FOCAL’s work in the areas of education, health and labour migration. Between 1997 and 2000 she was Editorial Assistant of the academic journal Política y Gobierno, published by the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. She holds a MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA)-Carleton University, and a Licenciatura in International Relations with a concentration in International Political Economy from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.