Christine Min Wotipka
Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology; Director of the master’s programs in International Comparative Education and International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis at the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE); and interim director of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University.
Dr. Wotipka’s research interests include gender and higher education, and globalization and citizenship education. She has a Spencer Foundation Grant titled “Globalization, Citizenship, and Education: A Cross–National Study of Curricula, 1955–2005” (with Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer). Among other studies, this grant supports her current paper with Mana Nakagawa, “The Worldwide Incorporation of Women in Social Science Curricula: 1970-2008.” Another study, with Corbin Schrader (published in Feminist Formations), examines women’s depictions in World War II narratives in American History textbooks over forty years. Dr. Wotipka earned her graduate degrees from Stanford – a PhD in International Comparative Education in 2001 and a master’s in Sociology in 1999. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in International Relations and French from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 1993. Prior to joining the faculty at SUSE, Dr. Wotipka was an assistant professor at her undergraduate alma mater and a visiting assistant professor/global fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Wotipka enjoys spending her free time with her husband, their two school-aged children, and their rescue dog, a poochon named Zebi (“river” in Chippewa). She enjoys politics, the outdoors, independent movies, and fiery Asian food.
Dr. Wotipka’s research interests include gender and higher education, and globalization and citizenship education. She has a Spencer Foundation Grant titled “Globalization, Citizenship, and Education: A Cross–National Study of Curricula, 1955–2005” (with Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer). Among other studies, this grant supports her current paper with Mana Nakagawa, “The Worldwide Incorporation of Women in Social Science Curricula: 1970-2008.” Another study, with Corbin Schrader (published in Feminist Formations), examines women’s depictions in World War II narratives in American History textbooks over forty years. Dr. Wotipka earned her graduate degrees from Stanford – a PhD in International Comparative Education in 2001 and a master’s in Sociology in 1999. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in International Relations and French from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 1993. Prior to joining the faculty at SUSE, Dr. Wotipka was an assistant professor at her undergraduate alma mater and a visiting assistant professor/global fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Wotipka enjoys spending her free time with her husband, their two school-aged children, and their rescue dog, a poochon named Zebi (“river” in Chippewa). She enjoys politics, the outdoors, independent movies, and fiery Asian food.
Deborah Rhode
Deborah L. Rhode is one of the country’s leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and gender, law, and public policy. An author of over 20 books, including The Beauty Bias, Women and Leadership and Moral Leadership, she is the nation’s most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics. She is the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and founding president of the International Association of Legal Ethics.
Professor Rhode is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, the founder and former director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and the former director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She also served as senior counsel to the minority members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She has received the American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics, the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools, and the White House’s Champion of Change award for a lifetime’s work in increasing access to justice. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice chair of the board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). She is currently a columnist for The National Law Journal and has also published editorials in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Slate. Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, Professor Rhode was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Professor Rhode is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, the founder and former director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and the former director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She also served as senior counsel to the minority members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She has received the American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics, the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools, and the White House’s Champion of Change award for a lifetime’s work in increasing access to justice. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice chair of the board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). She is currently a columnist for The National Law Journal and has also published editorials in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Slate. Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, Professor Rhode was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Nita Singh Kaushal, '03
Nita Singh Kaushal has extensive experience leading successful products and teams in the consumer internet, mobile and nonprofit sectors.
Nita is currently the Founder of Miss CEO, an educational startup focused on the delivering premier leadership training, educational tools and mentoring to girls and women. Nita was recently a senior manager at Yahoo! where she led an innovative and high performance suite of display media products. She began her career at Intel, where she contributed to the product evangelism and development of Intel's Centrino wireless platforms and other key mobile technologies.
Nita graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While in college, Nita developed a passion for helping girls and young women develop leadership skills and advance in underrepresented fields. She is on the Stanford Women's Community Center Advisory Board and has served as the Co-President of Yahoo! Women in Tech, a 500+ member organization committed to attracting, developing and retaining more women in technical and executive positions. Nita happily resides in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys traveling, reading, hiking and indulging in the local culinary scene.
Nita is currently the Founder of Miss CEO, an educational startup focused on the delivering premier leadership training, educational tools and mentoring to girls and women. Nita was recently a senior manager at Yahoo! where she led an innovative and high performance suite of display media products. She began her career at Intel, where she contributed to the product evangelism and development of Intel's Centrino wireless platforms and other key mobile technologies.
Nita graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While in college, Nita developed a passion for helping girls and young women develop leadership skills and advance in underrepresented fields. She is on the Stanford Women's Community Center Advisory Board and has served as the Co-President of Yahoo! Women in Tech, a 500+ member organization committed to attracting, developing and retaining more women in technical and executive positions. Nita happily resides in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys traveling, reading, hiking and indulging in the local culinary scene.
Tara Chklovsky
Tara Chklovski is the Founder and President of Iridescent, a nonprofit dedicated to providing science education to young people in underserved communities. She brings extensive knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, training and supporting engineers and mobilizing volunteers. Since being founded in 2006, Iridescent has trained more than 400 engineers and technology professionals to reach more than 9000 underserved children and their families in Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Iridescent believes in building the necessary support structure for students to break all records of success. A key strategy for Iridescent has been to engage and empower parents through the Family Science Program in which parents learn and do science alongside their children.
Tara has previously worked as the principal at a 300 student K-6 school in India and her love for science as well as art is reflected in Iridescent’s mission to share the beautiful side of science. She has an undergraduate degree in Physics, a M.S in Aerospace Engineering, and is part-time faculty at the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department at USC.
Tara has previously worked as the principal at a 300 student K-6 school in India and her love for science as well as art is reflected in Iridescent’s mission to share the beautiful side of science. She has an undergraduate degree in Physics, a M.S in Aerospace Engineering, and is part-time faculty at the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department at USC.
AI-JEN POO
Ai-jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), the leading organization working to build power, respect, and fair labor standards for the 2.5 million nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in the U.S. She began organizing immigrant women workers in 1996 as the Women Workers Project organizer at CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities in New York City. In 2000, she co-founded Domestic Workers United (DWU), a city-wide, multiracial organization of domestic workers. DWU led the way to the passage of the nation’s first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, historic legislation that extends basic labor protections to over 200,000 domestic workers in New York state. DWU helped to organize the first national meeting of domestic worker organizations at the US Social Forum in 2007, which resulted in the formation of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She has been NDWA’s director since April 2010. Ai-jen serves on the Board of Social Justice Leadership, the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, the Labor Advisory Board at Cornell ILR School, Momsrising, National Jobs with Justice, the New Labor Forum Editorial Board, Working America and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
Ai-jen was the 2000 recipient of an Open Society Institute New York City Community Fellowship, the recipient of the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award, the Ernest de Maio Award from Labor Research Association, the Woman of Vision Award from Ms. Foundation for Women and in 2009 was named as one of Crain's "40 Under 40" and New York Moves Magazine "Power Women" Awards. More recently, she is a recipient of the Alston Bannerman Fellowship for Organizers of Color, the Twink Frey Visiting Scholar Fellowship at University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women, and the Prime Movers Fellowship. In 2010, Feminist Press recognized her in their "40 Under 40" awards. In honor of the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day, Women Deliber recognized Ai-jen as one of 100 women internationally who are "delivering" for other women. In 2011, she received Independent Sector’s American Express NGen Leadership Award. In 2012, Ai-jen was named on Newsweek’s 150 Fearless Women list and on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Ai-jen was the 2000 recipient of an Open Society Institute New York City Community Fellowship, the recipient of the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award, the Ernest de Maio Award from Labor Research Association, the Woman of Vision Award from Ms. Foundation for Women and in 2009 was named as one of Crain's "40 Under 40" and New York Moves Magazine "Power Women" Awards. More recently, she is a recipient of the Alston Bannerman Fellowship for Organizers of Color, the Twink Frey Visiting Scholar Fellowship at University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women, and the Prime Movers Fellowship. In 2010, Feminist Press recognized her in their "40 Under 40" awards. In honor of the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day, Women Deliber recognized Ai-jen as one of 100 women internationally who are "delivering" for other women. In 2011, she received Independent Sector’s American Express NGen Leadership Award. In 2012, Ai-jen was named on Newsweek’s 150 Fearless Women list and on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Jessica Greer Morris
Jessica Greer Morris is a human rights advocate and published playwright listed in Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of the 150 Fearless Women who “shake up the world” for her innovative leadership at Girl Be Heard (formerly Project Girl Performance Collective). Jessica brings her expertise in the area of public health, strategic management and communications to Girl Be Heard, having been a consultant for many years. In this role, she became a principal of Man Up, a global, youth-led campaign to stop violence against women. She helped launch Man Up in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup with 100 young activists from 25 countries.
Jessica also wrote and starred in a New York Times-acclaimed one-woman show, Searching for a Mensch. She has produced theatrical work for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women conference, TED Women, a special performance at the White House, the Samuel French One-Act Competition, NYC Fringe Festival, and the Estrogenius Festival. Last year, she was commissioned to take Girl Be Heard on a five-city tour with the United Nations Girl Up Foundation. Jessica recently did a TED talk at Columbia’s Teacher College about how storytelling and fostering gender equity in education inspires her work.
Jessica graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Public Health and was asked to serve as the Acting Director of the Executive MPH Program at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She then worked as an HIV/AIDS consultant for the International Center for AIDS Care and Prevention, one of the largest AIDS-service providers in the developing world, before becoming Communications and Development Director at Family Care International. Jessica lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband and feisty, identical twin boys.
Jessica also wrote and starred in a New York Times-acclaimed one-woman show, Searching for a Mensch. She has produced theatrical work for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women conference, TED Women, a special performance at the White House, the Samuel French One-Act Competition, NYC Fringe Festival, and the Estrogenius Festival. Last year, she was commissioned to take Girl Be Heard on a five-city tour with the United Nations Girl Up Foundation. Jessica recently did a TED talk at Columbia’s Teacher College about how storytelling and fostering gender equity in education inspires her work.
Jessica graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Public Health and was asked to serve as the Acting Director of the Executive MPH Program at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She then worked as an HIV/AIDS consultant for the International Center for AIDS Care and Prevention, one of the largest AIDS-service providers in the developing world, before becoming Communications and Development Director at Family Care International. Jessica lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband and feisty, identical twin boys.
Peta Lindsay
Peta Lindsay is the 2012 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Lindsay is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and a member of the PSL’s Central Committee.
A 2008 graduate of Howard University, Lindsay currently lives in Los Angeles where she remains a leader and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California with the goal of becoming a public school teacher.
Born in Virginia, Lindsay spent much of her childhood in Philadelphia where, as a middle school student, she became an organizer with the Philadelphia Student Union, a citywide group struggling against racism and for education rights. In 1996, she helped lead a protest in which 2,000 students walked out of Philadelphia schools to advocate for increased public school funding.
For over a decade, Lindsay has helped to lead countless demonstrations across the country against imperialist wars, racism, budget cuts, tuition hikes, police brutality, anti-LGBT bigotry, and in support of immigrant rights, women’s rights and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and has been a tireless advocate for the rights of working people and for socialism.
A 2008 graduate of Howard University, Lindsay currently lives in Los Angeles where she remains a leader and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California with the goal of becoming a public school teacher.
Born in Virginia, Lindsay spent much of her childhood in Philadelphia where, as a middle school student, she became an organizer with the Philadelphia Student Union, a citywide group struggling against racism and for education rights. In 1996, she helped lead a protest in which 2,000 students walked out of Philadelphia schools to advocate for increased public school funding.
For over a decade, Lindsay has helped to lead countless demonstrations across the country against imperialist wars, racism, budget cuts, tuition hikes, police brutality, anti-LGBT bigotry, and in support of immigrant rights, women’s rights and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and has been a tireless advocate for the rights of working people and for socialism.
Janet Hanson
Janet Hanson is widely respected as a leading entrepreneur, and is recognized as a unique voice and champion for women globally. As CEO and Founder of 85 Broads, Janet has built a global network community of 30,000 trailblazing women who want to leverage their best personal and professional relationships to create greater success for themselves and each other.
Launched in 1997, the “founding members” of 85 Broads were women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the firm’s NYC headquarters. Today, trailblazing women are invited to join 85 Broads from every corner of the globe and from every possible career path. As a multi-cultural, multi-generational network, 85 Broads members live, work, and study in 82 different countries and work for thousands of for-profit and not-for-profit companies worldwide.
After graduating from Wheaton College and Columbia Business School, Janet joined Goldman Sachs in 1977. In 1986, she became the first woman in the firm’s history to be promoted to sales management. Following her 14-year career at Goldman Sachs, Janet founded Milestone Capital Management, a $2 billion institutional money management company. From 2004 to 2007, Janet was a Managing Director and Senior Adviser to the President of Lehman Brothers. Janet is also an avid investor and frequently speaks and writes about the importance of women becoming savvy investors. Janet is a member of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women’s Steering Committee. She is a member of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College and a current member of the Board of The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. She is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Talent Innovation. She has received a number of awards and honors, including an honorary degree from Middlebury College in 2007. Janet’s greatest passions are her two spectacular children—Meredith and Chris.
Launched in 1997, the “founding members” of 85 Broads were women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the firm’s NYC headquarters. Today, trailblazing women are invited to join 85 Broads from every corner of the globe and from every possible career path. As a multi-cultural, multi-generational network, 85 Broads members live, work, and study in 82 different countries and work for thousands of for-profit and not-for-profit companies worldwide.
After graduating from Wheaton College and Columbia Business School, Janet joined Goldman Sachs in 1977. In 1986, she became the first woman in the firm’s history to be promoted to sales management. Following her 14-year career at Goldman Sachs, Janet founded Milestone Capital Management, a $2 billion institutional money management company. From 2004 to 2007, Janet was a Managing Director and Senior Adviser to the President of Lehman Brothers. Janet is also an avid investor and frequently speaks and writes about the importance of women becoming savvy investors. Janet is a member of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women’s Steering Committee. She is a member of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College and a current member of the Board of The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. She is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Talent Innovation. She has received a number of awards and honors, including an honorary degree from Middlebury College in 2007. Janet’s greatest passions are her two spectacular children—Meredith and Chris.
Margo Watson, '09
Margo Watson became FACE AIDS' Executive Director in July 2012. She has a B.A. with Honors from Stanford University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While at Stanford she supported students as a staff member at the LGBT Community Resources Center, designed peer health education training for high-risk youth in Boston, and spent a year studying abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. After graduating from Stanford in 2009, she worked at Altshuler Berzon, LLP, a public-interest firm focused on employment and civil rights law. In 2011 and 2012, she biked the 545-mile AIDS/LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles and was a top fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation each year. AIDS/LifeCycle was such a transformative experience that after her first ride she quit her job in order to search for a position focused on HIV/AIDS. One week later, she was interviewing at FACE AIDS, and knew she had found home.
harise stein
Dr. Harise Stein is a board-certified Ob/Gyn, presently an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford
Medical Center. She received a BS in Biology from Stanford, an MD from Dartmouth, and did her Ob/
Gyn residency training at Stanford. Dr. Stein recognized a need for increased attention to partner abuse
screening at the medical center, and was the founder of an initial task force and is now Co-Chair of
the Stanford Medical Center Family Abuse Prevention Council. This council has overseen policy and
procedures, medical staff education, and patient materials regarding partner and family abuse.
Dr. Stein has also created educational websites relating to domestic, child and elder abuse for the medical community, and was the primary author of a chapter on Violence and Abuse Against Women for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has a very active role as educator and invited speaker to multiple public and medical groups, addressing the topic of abuse as an individual and
community health concern.
In addition, Dr. Stein serves as the Chair of the Medical Committee of the Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Council. In this role she has overseen a report to the Board of Supervisors on the domestic abuse screening practices of all 11 emergency departments in Santa Clara County. As a result of a need identified by this report, her committee also created tear-off pads with hotline and safety information
that have been disseminated widely throughout the community, including to all of the 11 hospital emergency and social work departments, medical and mental health clinics, and public libraries in the county. Realizing that the health effects of abuse would be a driving force for more attention to this issue, for the past 4 years she has also reviewed the medical research each month on health effects of abuse, creating a summary newsletter that goes out to an international listserve of practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
Dr. Stein feels that we are at a tipping point in recognizing that far from abuse being simply a social problem, it is a major public health issue as a powerful, far-reaching, and possibly life-long factor in health and well-being.
Medical Center. She received a BS in Biology from Stanford, an MD from Dartmouth, and did her Ob/
Gyn residency training at Stanford. Dr. Stein recognized a need for increased attention to partner abuse
screening at the medical center, and was the founder of an initial task force and is now Co-Chair of
the Stanford Medical Center Family Abuse Prevention Council. This council has overseen policy and
procedures, medical staff education, and patient materials regarding partner and family abuse.
Dr. Stein has also created educational websites relating to domestic, child and elder abuse for the medical community, and was the primary author of a chapter on Violence and Abuse Against Women for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has a very active role as educator and invited speaker to multiple public and medical groups, addressing the topic of abuse as an individual and
community health concern.
In addition, Dr. Stein serves as the Chair of the Medical Committee of the Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Council. In this role she has overseen a report to the Board of Supervisors on the domestic abuse screening practices of all 11 emergency departments in Santa Clara County. As a result of a need identified by this report, her committee also created tear-off pads with hotline and safety information
that have been disseminated widely throughout the community, including to all of the 11 hospital emergency and social work departments, medical and mental health clinics, and public libraries in the county. Realizing that the health effects of abuse would be a driving force for more attention to this issue, for the past 4 years she has also reviewed the medical research each month on health effects of abuse, creating a summary newsletter that goes out to an international listserve of practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
Dr. Stein feels that we are at a tipping point in recognizing that far from abuse being simply a social problem, it is a major public health issue as a powerful, far-reaching, and possibly life-long factor in health and well-being.
DEBBIE STERLING, '05
Debbie Sterling is a female engineer and founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. She has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math.
GoldieBlox is a book series+construction set that engages kids to build through the story of Goldie, the girl inventor who solves problems by building simple machines. Debbie writes and illustrates Goldie's stories, taking inspiration from her grandmother, one of the first female cartoonists and creator of "Mr. Magoo". Her company, launched in 2012, raised over $285,000 in 30 days through Kickstarter, and has been featured in numerous publications such as The Atlantic and Forbes.
Prior to founding GoldieBlox, Debbie served as the Marketing Director of Lori Bonn, a national jewelry company. For the past 7 years, she has also served as a brand strategy consultant for a wide variety of organizations including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Organic Valley and the New York Knicks.
Debbie's inspiration to create a mission-driven company came in 2008, when she spent 6 months volunteering at a grassroots nonprofit in rural India. She created a viral-video fundraising campaign called "I Want a Goat", raising over $30,000 for economic and educational development in the region. This experience helped pave the way to finding her true passion: inspiring the next generation of female engineers.
Debbie completed her degree in engineering at Stanford (Product Design, '05) and currently lives with her husband in San Francisco.
GoldieBlox is a book series+construction set that engages kids to build through the story of Goldie, the girl inventor who solves problems by building simple machines. Debbie writes and illustrates Goldie's stories, taking inspiration from her grandmother, one of the first female cartoonists and creator of "Mr. Magoo". Her company, launched in 2012, raised over $285,000 in 30 days through Kickstarter, and has been featured in numerous publications such as The Atlantic and Forbes.
Prior to founding GoldieBlox, Debbie served as the Marketing Director of Lori Bonn, a national jewelry company. For the past 7 years, she has also served as a brand strategy consultant for a wide variety of organizations including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Organic Valley and the New York Knicks.
Debbie's inspiration to create a mission-driven company came in 2008, when she spent 6 months volunteering at a grassroots nonprofit in rural India. She created a viral-video fundraising campaign called "I Want a Goat", raising over $30,000 for economic and educational development in the region. This experience helped pave the way to finding her true passion: inspiring the next generation of female engineers.
Debbie completed her degree in engineering at Stanford (Product Design, '05) and currently lives with her husband in San Francisco.
nadejda marques
Nadejda Marques served as the program manager for the Program on Human Rights (PHR). In this capacity, Marques coordinates a range of interdisciplinary initiatives and events as well as overseeing PHR's outreach, and spearheading fundraising efforts. She supports the conceptualization, design, and conduct of the PHR's research initiatives and also promotes the mission and visibility of PHR activities. Marques joins the Center from Boston where she worked as research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the François-Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights based in the Harvard School of Public Health. Working for the Cost of Inaction Project for the past two and a half years, she was responsible for researching and analyzing the cost of inaction of public programs and actions that help reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in Angola.
She holds degrees in economics (UNA, Brazil) and international finance (FGV, Brazil). She has worked as a special correspondent for the Washington Post in Latin America, and has taught languages and Latin American culture at Harvard, Bentley College, and the University of Massachusetts in Boston. For the past decade, Marques has worked in the field of human rights with Human Rights Watch in Brazil and Angola.
She holds degrees in economics (UNA, Brazil) and international finance (FGV, Brazil). She has worked as a special correspondent for the Washington Post in Latin America, and has taught languages and Latin American culture at Harvard, Bentley College, and the University of Massachusetts in Boston. For the past decade, Marques has worked in the field of human rights with Human Rights Watch in Brazil and Angola.