Shreen is a Senior Change Manager in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She studied accountancy, became a stock broker, went into marketing. Working for "one person's profit" became stale, however, so she jumped to the citizen sector within CIDA and their women's program. Her moment to spread her wings occurred in 1999. Shreen gathered together 10 evicted Muslim women and they returned to Mannar. They wanted to recapture their identity and to go home. She started a multi-ethnic, multi-religious all-women's federation that works in a complementary approach between communities to develop products, market them and improve the financial status of women in society. Recently she set up a separate human rights organization that addresses war related violence against women. For her work Shreen was awarded the Women Peacemaker Fellowship from the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, San Diego. California in 2004 and became an Echoing Green Fellow in 2005. In May, Shreen will be in New York to accept International Rescue Committee's Women Commission's Voices of Courage award.
