FARMINGTON – A talk, “Caught in the Crossfire – Violence Against Women During Armed Conflict,” will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the North Dining Hall, UMF Olsen Student Center.

The talk, featuring Dr. Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, assistant professor at City College of the City University of New York, will focus on the devastating impact of armed conflict on the lives of women and girls around the world, with an emphasis on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of warfare.

Akinsulure-Smith, originally from Sierra Leone, has extensive clinical experience working with war trauma survivors, refugees, asylees and asylum seekers, survivors of sexual violence, persons afflicted with and affected by HIV/AIDS and culturally diverse populations.

She has been conducting individual and group psychotherapy as well as psychological assessments with clients in the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture since 1999.

She has been involved in human rights investigations in Sierra Leone with Physicians for Human Rights and the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, Human Rights Division.

Akinsulure-Smith is also one of the co-founders of Nah We Yone Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides social and psychological services to displaced African war victims in the New York metropolitan area.

She and her co-founders at Nah We Yone are 2003 winners of New York City’s Union Square Awards. In 2005, Akinsulure-Smith received Teachers College, Columbia University’s “Early Career Award.”