Iris Stern Levi

Iris Stern Levi
Photographic head-and-shoulders portrait of Iris Stern Levi; she is looking into the camera, wearing a sleeveless black blouse, and she has short-to-medium length straight, graying blonde hair.
Born (1953-05-11) 11 May 1953 (age 71)
Jaffa, Israel
NationalityIsraeli, Australian
Occupation(s)Social activist, artist
Known forCo-founding Her Academy and Turning the Tables
Awards
  • Sussman-Joint Award (2018)
  • Rappaport Prize for Women Generating Change in Israeli Society (2021)
  • Rayah Fund Honoree (2021)
  • JDC Kaveret Prize for Social Entrepreneurship (2019)
  • Yaffa London Yaari Foundation Award (2017)
  • Israel's Speaker of the Knesset Quality of Life Award (2017)

Iris Stern Levi (born May 11, 1953) is an Israeli social activist focused on issues of women's and human rights. She is co-founder of the non-profit organizations Her Academy (2016) and Turning the Tables (2011), both of which work to provide vocational training for women who are survivors of prostitution and violence. Stern Levi is also on the board of Coalition of Women for Peace, co-director of the Testimony Tribunal of Women Victims of Sexual Assault, and was the volunteer coordinator for the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center for 16 years. She is the recipient of the 2018 Sussman-Joint Award.[1]

  1. ^ בירושלים, מנהלת המרכז. "התנדבות במרכז סיוע לנפגעות ולנפגעי תקיפה מינית ירושלים עש לינדה פלדמן". איגוד ומרכזי הסיוע לנפגעות ולנפגעי תקיפה מינית (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2019-07-09.