Profile
Clarice is a Dutch-American-Liberian award-winning multidisciplinary (film)maker, journalist, writer, and community organizer working at the intersection of journalism, art, social justice, philosophy, and mysticism. She has worked for BNNVARA, VPRO, as an NRC columnist and at the Correspondent as Correspondent Resistance. She is the co-founder of feminist journalistic platform Lilith Magazine and LGBT+ organization Black Pride NL.
In 2019, Gargard was the Dutch women's representative and gave a speech on women's rights and the importance of systemic change at the United Nations General Assembly. As a maker and lover of art and culture, she is also a Supervisory Board member of the Prince Claus Fund and has been part of the Supervisory Board of the Holland Festival. She is also vice-chairman of the board and organizer at Black Pride NL and part of the Advisory Council of the Netherlands Association for the United Nations.
The documentary "Daddy and the Warlord", about her father and the Liberian civil wars, which she made in collaboration with Shamira Raphaëla, won a Golden Calf in 2019 for Best Short Documentary. She also won a Black Achievement Award in the People and Society category and was nominated in 2018 and 2019 for the Joke Smit incentive prize for her work and activism. Gargard's book "Dragon Daughter" (Arbeiderspers) about her family history, migration, politics and society is now for sale at bookshops.