Laetitia Van der Vennet

Class of 2019

Laetitia has worked on the tensions between human rights and migration policies for the last ten years. She was with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in West Africa and led advocacy campaigns on immigration detention, housing and health care for undocumented families in Belgium. Laetitia is equally interested in the relationship between conflict and peace, which led her to get BA in Psychology, MA is social and cultural anthropology, a MA in conflict and development and become a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand (’16). She’s fluent in English, French, and Dutch.

Clippings

  • 2019
  • News Decoder

DECODER–EU’s migration policy destroys Niger’s smuggling economy

  • CIUT 89.5 FM

GLOBAL BEATS SHOW #2

  • 2019
  • CIUT 89.5 FM

GLOBAL BEATS SHOW #1

  • 2019
  • CBC

Finland’s ‘housing first’ homelessness strategy could help ease Toronto’s shelter crisis