Zenita Nicholson
Age: 37
Summary: Guyanese
human rights activist and board member with the LGBT rights
organization Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)
who was the first Guyanese recipient to be awarded an International
Woman of Courage Award from the U.S. embassy for her work against
homophobia and fighting for women's rights in 2014, who also worked as
a country coordinator of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (CVC) and
the Centre of Integral Orientation and Investigation (COIN) under the
PANCAP Global Fund Round 9 "Vulnerablized" Groups Project.
Cause of Death: Suspected suicide by pesticide poisoning
Born: June 24, 1978
Died: October 26, 2015
Location: Georgetown, Guyana
