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WIWAC Participants
Read about WIWAC and register. View the panelists' speaking schedule.
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Keynote Speaker Gillian Sorensen,
Senior Advisor, United Nations Foundation |
| Gillian Sorensen has had a long career working with and for the UN. From 1997-2003, she served as Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She was responsible for outreach to civil society, including NGOs committed to peace, justice, development and human rights. .Read more |
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Bina Valsangkar,
Founder and Presiden of the Quite Project |
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"Starting a Global Health Non-Profit: Challenges and Successes"
Bina Valsangkar is a founder and president of the Quito Project (TQP), a non-profit organization dedicated to measurably improving healthcare ,education, and social services in resource-poor communities in Quito, Ecuador. Read more |
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Sarah Harder,
President, National Peace Foundation |
Over thirty years of projects involving women in social change at grassroots, national and international levels have engaged Sarah Harder.She has been National Peace Foundation (NPF) president since 2000. She co-chairs the National Women's Conference Committee and serves on the National Council of Women's Organizations in Washington DC, both of which she helped create.Read more |
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Olga Bessolova,
National Peace Foundation |
Olga Bessolova's professional work began in aircraft design at TSAGI(Central Aerodynamic Institute), the Soviet Union's top aerospace research facility in 1980. In 1990 she was appointed Deputy Director (one of its first women), responsible for Social Services and Finance, just as perestroika (economic restructuring) signaled the collapse of Soviet social
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Bessolova is a leader in the International Women's Forum and President of the Russian Federation of Women Graduates, an affiliate of International Federation of University Women. Read more |
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Sheila Curran Bernard,
Senior Media Consultant and Author, Harbor Productions |
Sheila Curran Bernard, Senior Media Consultant and Author, Harbor Productions, is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning media professional. Her books include Documentary Storytelling and the forthcoming Archival Storytelling (co-authored with Kenn Rabin), both for Focal Press. Read more |
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Farah Pandith, Smith ’90,
Senior Advisor, Chamber of European and Eurasian Affairs |
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Farah Pandith assumed her duties as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in February 2007. Pandith is focused on Muslim communities in Europe and is responsible for policy oversight for integration, democracy and Islam in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. She also works on issues relating to countering violent Islamic extremism. Read more. |
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Angela Mason,
Women and Children’s Advocate, World Vision |
| Angela Mason, Women and Children’s Advocate for World Vision, has devoted her life to being a voice for suffering children and travels the world on humanitarian missions. She has walked over land mines, been shot at, held babies orphaned by AIDS, met child soldiers and walked into prisons, brothels and sweat shops where children are abused and exploited. Read more. |
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Lena AlHusseini,
Executive Director, Arab-American Family Support Center |
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Lena AlHusseini, Executive Director, the Arab-American Family Support Center, established the Jordan River Foundation’s child protection unit under the direction of HM Queen Rania Al Abdullah. That organization was the first in Jordan to address the issue of child abuse. Read more. |
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Kay Maxwell, Smith ’63,
Executive Director, World Affairs Forum |
Kay J. Maxwell, Executive Director of the World Affairs Forum in Stamford, CT, served as the 16th president of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) and chair of the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) from 2002-2006. Maxwell attended Smith College and earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Read more.
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