Charlotte Bunch was one of the first to promote the concept of women’s rights as human rights. Her stance on women’s rights as basic human rights was formative for me as I began to work in the gender arena in the late 1990’s.
Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn have sustained broad attention to the needs of women and girls around the world in ways that are inspirational and effective.
Katherine Boo’s work in India uses non-traditional methods and innovations in applied research to get to the heart of issues of poverty and women’s realities. She goes where others have not gone and creates relationships in order to understand.
Lila Abu-Lugod’s insightful career as an anthropologist exploring women’s rights, gender and power in the Middle East provides encouragement and motivation for our own work.