About CWGL

Mission

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.

History

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989 and is a unit of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL)—a consortium of six women's programs at Rutgers University created to study and promote how and why women lead, and to develop programs that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively. The member units of IWL are: the Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP), the Center for Women and Work, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Douglass Residential College, the Institute for Research on Women (IRW), and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.

CWGL's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas. Since 1990, CWGL has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center. CWGL works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being. CWGL's programs are in two broad areas of policy & advocacy and leadership development & women's human rights education.

Staff

Charlotte Bunch, Founder & Executive Director, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor and Professor, Women's & Gender Studies Department
Margot Baruch, Program Assistant
Jewel Daney, Administrative Director
Mika Kinose, Office Manager
Lucy V. Vidal, Information Manager

Affiliates & Consultants

Cynthia Rothschild, Senior Policy Advisor
Julie Rajan, Teaching Assistant to Charlotte Bunch
Anahi Russo, Graduate Assistant

Student Staff

Allison M. Macmunn, Graduate Student Assistant
Nathalie Margi, Graduate Student Assistant
Jalilah Muhammadi, Student Assistant

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