Su Myat Yadanar
Affiliated Research Fellows
Su Myat Yadanar is an incoming Ph.D. student from Myanmar at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is also a PhD-fellowship recipient from Brot für die Welt. Her research focuses on Burmese immigrant women living on the Thai-Myanmar border and their community-based responses to sexual harassment in contexts where formal legal systems are absent. Su recently completed her master's degree in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession from the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. For her master's thesis, she researched one of the women's resistance movements in post-coup Myanmar, known as the Htamein movement, and explored the role of gendered power and patriarchal reproduction within the movement. Su brings over ten years of professional experience across communications, media, and social change work. She has worked with the United Nations World Food Programme in Myanmar, a regional PR firm, and previously spent three years as a TV journalist at Myanmar International Television. She has also led national pro-social campaigns addressing issues such as single-use plastics, air pollution, street harassment, and menstrual stigma. Su holds a B.A. in Journalism from National Management Degree College in Yangon and studied Environmental Issues at the University of Hawaii as part of the YSEALI program. Alongside her Ph.D. studies, Su currently contributes her social science expertise to the Sofia Learning Club, an online education non-profit organization in Myanmar.