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STAFF
Elaine Zuckerman, President and Founder
Gender Action represents Elaine Zuckerman's life, work and
passion to ensure social justice, and equal rights and opportunities
for women. Elaine joined the World Bank when she heard that
China was becoming a borrowing member and worked as an economist
on China. This preceded the advent of structural adjustment
loans (SALs) and protests against the Bank. Witnessing the
unfolding of structural adjustment, in 1987 she created the
Bank's first program to mitigate SALs' harmful impacts on
the poor, especially on women. Later she worked in the World
Bank's gender unit where she had an opportunity to analyze
Bank investments around the world across sectors. She was
struck by the paucity of Bank operations that try to empower
women despite Bank rhetoric and studies expressing the urgency
to do so in order to reduce poverty. In the 1990s at the Inter-American
Development Bank (IADB), she designed a strategy for the Amazon
that prohibited future investments in roads and ranching that
damaged indigenous groups and the environment, and promoted
health, water, education and renewable resources. She was
also Coordinator of the IADB's Social Agenda Policy Group.
While working in the International Financial Institutions
(IFIs), Elaine realized that citizen groups, that began proliferating
worldwide during the 1980s, were designing the most dynamic,
responsive solutions to development problems. This inspired
her to launch Gender Action, a non-profit advocacy campaign
to hold the IFIs accountable on their promises to empower
women and leverage the IFIs' power to redress the unacceptable
feminization of poverty.
During Elaine's work for the IFIs and consulting for bilateral
aid agencies and civil society organizations such as the International
Center for Research on Women and Oxfam, she worked extensively
on China, Latin America, Africa and Southeast Europe on gender,
poverty, poverty reduction strategies, the social impact of
macroeconomic policies and structural adjustment reforms,
social investment funds, education and health financing, and
rural development and environment projects. While serving
on the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Board of Directors during the 1980s, she designed and chaired
the first AWID Forum workshop that examined the impact of
adjustment on women. She invited speakers from Africa, Asia
and Latin America to tell their stories firsthand.
Elaine studied in China for over three years during the Cultural
Revolution on Canadian and Chinese government scholarships.
During this time, she experienced Chinese life by living with
Chinese and working on communes and in factories. She completed
her studies in political economy at McGill University, the
University of Toronto and Beijing University and in business
administration at Georgetown University. She speaks and reads
Chinese, French and Spanish.
Mande Limbu, Program Director
Mande's career is devoted to advocating for women's rights
and gender equality. Previously Mande was a law and human
rights consultant to the Policy Project of the Futures Group
International (2004-06), providing technical support in designing
and implementing strategies to influence rights-based approaches
to HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health programming. She has also
consulted with women’s organizations in Tanzania to
promote gender equality in property and inheritance matters.
Before that Mande worked with CARE Tanzania as a Program Officer
and as a Research Assistant at the Ministry of Health Family
Planning Unit in Tanzania.
Mande received her LL.B from the University of Dar es Salaam
in Tanzania. In 2001 she graduated with an LL.M from Georgetown
University where she focused her studies on international
women's human rights issues. While at Georgetown, she was
a Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program (LAWA)
fellow in the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program
(WLPPFP). Mande was WLPPFP's first Higher Education Fellow,
a Fellowship supported jointly by the Ford Foundation, the
Carnegie Corporation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, to promote
women's access to higher education in Tanzania. Along these
lines, she completed her graduate research paper on Gender
Equality and Higher Education in Tanzania, which is now published
in the book: "Voices of African Women: Women's Rights
in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania."
In 2007 Mande completed her doctoral studies at Cornell University
where she was a fellow of the Institute for African Development.
Her Cornell dissertation is entitled "Making Justice
More Accessible to the Poor with a Special Focus on Women:
Introducing Clinical Legal Education in Tanzania."
Anna Rooke, Programs Coordinator
Anna Rooke is Gender Action's Programs Coordinator. She has
first-hand experience working on gender and development issues
in Latin America and the United States. Before joining Gender
Action, Anna co-authored and published a report on adolescent
women's reproductive health in Ecuador with La Coordinadora
Política Juvenil por la Equidad de Género. In
Bolivia, she worked to strengthen women's legal rights with
La Oficina Jurídica para la Mujer. And in the Dominican
Republic, Anna worked to support community-led development
projects in rural areas and co-founded the Los Conucos Scholarship
Fund to help local students attend four-year universities.
Finally in California, Anna co-founded the Advocates for Survivors
of Sexual Assault, a community-based organization that supports
survivors seeking medical assistance and conducts advocacy
to prevent sexual assault.
Anna will soon receive an MSc with Distinction in "Gender,
Development and Globalisation" from the London School
of Economics and holds a BA Magna Cum Laude in "Women's
Studies and Sociology" from Pomona College. She has also
undertaken postgraduate work in "Género y Desarrollo"
at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales sede
Ecuador and is fluent in Spanish. Anna received Amnesty International
(2003) and Rotary Ambassadorial (2005-6) scholarships to complete
her work and studies abroad.
ASSOCIATES
Ashley Garrett (2003-2005), Eritrea IPRSP
Analysis and Fieldwork around Engendering the PRSP and Food
Security Strategy; Mozambique PRSP gender analysis; Co-author
of Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Address Gender Issues?
A Gender Audit of 2002 PRSPs.
Marcia Greenberg (2004-2007), Co-author
of Gender Action's Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Paper Series.
VOLUNTEERS AND CONSULTANTS
Gender Action carries out its work by relying on a corps of
superb volunteers and consultants listed below.
VOLUNTEERS
Nicole Belanger (2007), Student, Swarthmore
College; Intern, analysis of World Bank funding for reproductive
health and HIV/AIDS
Denise Colbert (2003), Gender
Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Joint Staff Assessments;
and Co-Organizer of the Gender Action June 23, 2003 Launch
Reception
Suzanna Dennis (2005-2008),
Programs Coordinator and Consultant. Co-author of five
Gender Action reports including "Mapping Multilateral
Development Banks’ Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
Spending”, “Gender Justice: A Citizen's Guide
to Gender Accountability at International Financial Institutions”
and the “Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based
Lending”.
Nancy Dunne (2005),
Retired Financial Times Reporter – Writing and Editing
Asal (Amber) Esfahani (2006), Intern,
Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction –
World Bank, Gender Guide to the IFIs
Hilary Sims Feldstein (2004), Consultant
on Gender Training and Gender and Agriculture; Former Staff
of the International Center for Research on Women - Gender
Analysis of World Bank Gender Web Pages
Mariam Galston (ongoing),
George Washington University Law Professor - Legal Work
Dan Guttman (ongoing), Fulbright
Scholar in China - Legal Work
Kit Johnston (2003), Co-Organizer
of the Gender Action June 23, 2003 Launch Reception
Jamie MacIntosh (2003), Architecture
Student – Gender Action June 23, 2003 Launch Reception
Logistics
Toby MacIntosh (2003), Bureau
for National Affairs Manager – Gender Action June 23,
2003 Launch Reception Logistics
Fiona McDowell (2003), Peace
Corps Volunteer, Former Grameen Foundation USA –
Database Development
Aida Orgocka (2003), Gender Analysis
of World Bank Projects in China
Jean Po (2003), Intern, Gender
Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction – World Bank,
Gender Analysis of World Bank China program, Fundraising
Victoria Rames (2002), USAID
– Development Planning
Ashley Shaffer (2004), Intern, Gender
Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction – World Bank
Research
Veronica (Patty) Truchly (2006),
Extractive Industries Project, Gender Guide to
the IFIs, Gender Analysis of the Human Security Report, Editing
Aleksandra Vladisavljevic (2004), Economic
Policy Initiative, Association for Women's Initiatives, Belgrade,
Serbia and Montenegro and Network for East West Women
Fellow – Analysis of World Bank Structural Adjustment
Loans
Warisha Yunus (2007), Intern,
Gender analysis of World Bank-managed Tsunami reconstruction
in Indonesia
Lin Xiaowen (2004), Gender
Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction – World Bank
Research and Analysis
CONSULTANTS
Jing Du (2003-2005), Database
Anita Gottlieb (2005-2006), Fundraising
and Strategic Planning
Sandra Willett Jackson (2006), Fundraising
Eric Schnabel (2005-2006), Fundraising
Wang Xin (ongoing), Database,
Listserv, Website
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