ORGANIZING TEAM

Julie Shaw (Team Leader) has over 30 years professional leadership working with government, private sector, and civil society groups worldwide. She has extensive background creating and managing the start-up of new projects and charitable organizations including: strategic design; best practices in resource mobilization; frameworks for innovative grant making; and managerial and program development. Ms. Shaw was the founder, and for ten years, the Executive Director of Urgent Action Fund, a dynamic global women's fund. During her leadership Urgent Action Fund invented the "rapid response grant-making model", which has been adopted by funders in the U.S. and abroad; launched a cutting-edge research and publishing program; co-founded and mentored the now independent, Urgent Action Fund-Africa in Kenya; and laid the groundwork for the establishment of Urgent Action Fund-Latin America. Julie is currently doing consulting work with philanthropies and international NGOs.

Jane Barry is a human rights activist and author, specializing in the intersections of peace, security and gender. In 2008, she designed and co-facilitated a series of training workshops on 'integrated security' for women human rights defenders from Asia, Central Asia, Latin America and Africa. Her latest books include: Insiste, Persiste, Resiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies (with Vahida Nainar); What's the Point of the Revolution if We Can't Dance? (with Jelena Djordjevic) and Rising up in Response: Women's Rights Activism in Conflicts. Jane also has experience of humanitarian and human rights emergencies at the global policy level and in the field, where she worked for several years in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Africa designing and managing emergency response programs. She holds a Certificate in International Human Rights Law and Practice from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA from Middlebury College in Soviet Studies.

Jelena Djordjevic is a feminist activist and trainer working on the prevention of violence against women and trafficking in the Balkan region. She is also active in the area of sexual rights through her involvement with the Network of Sex Work Projects and International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe. Currently Jelena stands as deputy director of Anti Trafficking Center in Belgrade, Serbia. She co-authored the Urgent Action Fund publication on sustaining activism, What's the Point of Revolution If We Can't Dance? and helped to design and facilitate a series of workshops for UAF and others on integrated security and sustaining activism. Jelena holds a Masters Degree in Migration Studies from the Sussex University in United Kingdom.

GENDER ADVISORS

Born in Singapore, Lin Chew lived 26 years in the Netherlands and since 1999 is based in Hong Kong. Presently she is a Communications Consultant with the 'Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts Research Programme Consortium, a research for communication programme based at the City University of Hong Kong. A feminist and a human rights activist, she has worked for many years on issues around migration and women migrant workers' rights. She was co-initiator of the Dutch Foundation against Trafficking in Women (STV, 1987) and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW, 1994). She served on the Board of the Global Fund for Women, USA (1999-2005), is a founding member of HER Fund (Hong Kong, from 2004) and currently serves on the Board of Mama Cash, the oldest women's fund, based in the Netherlands.

Ana Criquillion, born in France, moved to Nicaragua when she was 17. At 22 she started a women's group in a poor neighborhood of Managua, focusing on winning women's rights within the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship. In 1983 Ana went to work for the Farm Workers Association where she and a colleague convinced the union to establish Nicaragua's first organized women's secretariat. In 1988, while teaching at Central American University, Ana created the University's first gender studies program. In 1990, Ana founded the Puntos de Encuentro Foundation, a feminist organization where she worked for the next 12 years publishing Nicaragua's most widely circulated magazine, offering a series of courses on institutional strengthening and sustainability, and airing the television soap opera, "Sixth Sense", which today tops the ratings in its time slot nationwide. Ana is currently the founder and Executive Director of the Central American Women's Fund and President of the Board of Directors of the International Network of Women's Funds. In 2005, Ana was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship for leading social entrepreneurs proposing innovative solutions to change patterns across society.

Mariam Gagoshashvili works in the independent grantmaking organization Women's Fund in Georgia as a program coordinator since 2007. Simultaneously, she runs the Feminist Art Studio 'Spero' set up solely for women artists in Georgia. Mariam holds a Master's degree in Gender Studies from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and Bachelor's degree in Social Psychology from the Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Amalia Fischer Pfaeffle is the founder of the Angela Borba Fund for Women based in Rio de Janeiro. A Mexican-Nicaraguan and a feminist activist since 1975, Dr. Fischer founded the Fund in 2001 with nine other women to raise awareness surrounding women's contributions and women's issues while changing patterns of traditional philanthropic giving. Dr. Fischer has a PhD in communication and culture, and was a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico for 20 years. Dr. Fischer is also an Ashoka Fellow.

Tina Thiart is Executive Director of the International Network of Women's Funds (INWF) based in Capetown, South Africa. INWF, comprised of 22 women's funds from the global south and the global north, is committed to using a gender lens to redefine philanthropy as a field in which the global south and the global north work as equals. After completing her degree in Physical Education at the University of Port Elizabeth, Tina spent 10 years teaching then joined Kwazulu Natal Athletic in 1989 as General Manager. In 2000 she became the Fundraising Coordinator and later Acting Director of the Women's Hope Education and Training Trust (WHEAT Trust). In 2006 Tina left the WHEAT Trust and became the first Executive Director of INWF.

Katrin Wilde, Executive Director of the Channel Foundation, guides its grantmaking, advocacy, and collaboration in order to promote leadership in women's human rights around the globe. She received her master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she focused on human rights and coordinated the Southeast Asia Fellows program. She has done research for UNDP Nepal, the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and the International Rescue Committee. Previously, she worked as a journalist in Thailand. Currently serving on the Board of Grantmakers Without Borders and the Grantmaking Committees of the Women's Funding Alliance and Social Justice Fund Northwest, Wilde also acts as Women's Human Rights Outreach Coordinator for Amnesty International Seattle.

The deadline for registration is May 15th, 2009.

To register, complete and mail in an application form [ MS Word document ]

For more information on the Gender and Global Grantmaking Initiative, please contact John Harvey at john@gwob.net.

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