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 & Current Work

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989. 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’s current programmatic areas are: the promotion of women’s leadership, the advancement of feminist perspectives in economic and social rights and the elimination of violence against women, in local, national and international arenas.

CWGL is a unit of International Programs within the School of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL)—a consortium of women's programs at Rutgers University that examines leadership issues and advances women's leadership in education, research, politics, science, the arts, the workplace and the world. 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), the Institute for Women and Art (IWA), the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.

Staff

Alex Anastasia, Administrative Assistant
Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership and Professor, Women's & Gender Studies Department
Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator
Savi Bisnath, Associate Director
Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Women's Global Leadership and Board of Governor's Distinguished Service Professor, Women's & Gender Studies Department
Mika Kinose, Office Manager
Julie Ann Salthouse, Program Coordinator
Lucy V. Vidal, Information & Communication Director

Affiliates

Diane Elson, University of Essex
Marcela Olivera, Visiting Global Associate

Student & Part-time Staff

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, IWL Scholar
Akanksha Arya, IWL Scholar
Jay Chopra, Student Assistant
Samantha Dugan, Student Assistant
Puja Jani, Student Assistant
Kara McCloskey, IWL Scholar
Sulekha Prasad, Economic & Social Rights Graduate Assistant
Sarah Weirich, Graduate Assistant
Sara West, Intern

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