Eftekhar, Tina
Dr Tina Eftekhar is a spiritual leader of professional development, specializing in gender, human rights, women’s empowerment and spirituality. She has over five years of experience at both national and international universities and in the non-profit sectors, working to serve women affected by domestic violence and all forms of violence in a variety of roles, including those of researcher, educator, author, speaker and advisor. Having received a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University, she then moved on to study International Human Rights Law, in which she received a Master’s degree from Nottingham University. After being granted a scholarship from the Human Rights Law Centre for six months’ UN training and experience in working on projects examining violence against women, Dr Eftekhar was inspired to explore women’s empowerment through spirituality at PhD level at York University. She is now Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (criminal justice specialist) in Women’s Aid, and also has formed her own innovative curricula, Women’s Self-empowerment Strategies, to help create and promote women’s agency and change in social and cultural norms, both locally and globally, in order to eliminate forms of violence against women, particularly domestic violence.
Dr Tina Eftekhar is a spiritual leader of professional development, specializing in gender, human rights, women’s empowerment and spirituality. She has over five years of experience at both national and international universities and in the non-profit sectors, working to serve women affected by domestic violence and all forms of violence in a variety of roles, including those of researcher, educator, author, speaker and advisor. Having received a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University, she then moved on to study International Human Rights Law, in which she received a Master’s degree from Nottingham University. After being granted a scholarship from the Human Rights Law Centre for six months’ UN training and experience in working on projects examining violence against women, Dr Eftekhar was inspired to explore women’s empowerment through spirituality at PhD level at York University. She is now Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (criminal justice specialist) in Women’s Aid, and also has formed her own innovative curricula, Women’s Self-empowerment Strategies, to help create and promote women’s agency and change in social and cultural norms, both locally and globally, in order to eliminate forms of violence against women, particularly domestic violence.