Carmilla Floyd is a writer based in Stockholm, focused on child rights and restorative justice. With over three decades of experience, she founded youth magazine Ocean, authored several books, and contributed essays to major publications. She also produced documentaries and pedgogical platforms.
Carmilla's work spans topics such as the criminal justice system, children of incarcerated parents, domestic child trafficking, housing crises, the death penalty's impact on children, and intergenerational trauma in families and communities after, for example, debt slavery, genocide or commercial sexual exploitation of children, CSEC.
Carmilla has conducted workshops on journalism, freedom of speech, and media literacy in fragile states such as Vietnam and Belarus with support from Swedish government agencies such as Sida and SI. She has created multimedia educational materials on human rights and media literacy for nonprofits and institutions. A part-time staff writer and webeditor for The Globe, an educational magazine by the World's Children's Prize Foundation, she addresses child rights issues globally.
Carmilla Floyd's 1997 book, "Respekt" followed children growing up in Latine families involved in gangs over several generations. A follow-up book and audio project are slated for publication in 2024 featuring photographs by Joseph Rodriguez.
carmillaorama@gmail.com