Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, and Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. Previously, she was Professor of Economics and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College. She has worked at the Ford Foundation as a program officer in the Asia Regional Program. She is currently the Chair of the Board of the US Human Rights Network and on the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has published in the field of gender and development. A select list of her publications are listed below: Why MES with Human Rights: Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights, 2005; edited The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a Global Economy, Kumarian Press, 2001; and co-edited Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the Worlds Religions, with Patricia Jung and Mary Hunt, Rutgers University Press, 2000. She has also authored numerous articles that have appeared in books and journals.

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Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, at the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University, has been an activist, author and organizer in the women's, civil, and human rights movements for four decades. A Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Bunch was previously a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a founder of Washington D.C. Women's Liberation and of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly. She is the author of numerous essays and has edited or co-edited nine anthologies including the Center’s reports on the UN Beijing Plus 5 Review and the World Conference Against Racism. Her books include two classics: Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights.  

Bunch's contributions to conceptualizing and organizing for women's human rights have been recognized by many and include: her induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 1996; President Clinton's selection of Bunch as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in December 1999; her receipt of the "Women Who Make a Difference Award" from the National Council for Research on Women in 2000; and being honored as one of the "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's Enews in 2002 and also received the “Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence in Research” in 2006 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, and on the Boards of the Global Fund for Women and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. She has been a consultant to many United Nations bodies and recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General’s 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women.

Papers of Charlotte Bunch at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute: http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~sch00220
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Jewel Daney, Administrative Director, has been with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership since 1997. She has been active in social justice and human service issues for over twenty years. Before joining CWGL’s staff, she served as Executive Director for the Housing Coalition of Central Jersey in New Brunswick, one of the most respected non-profit agencies in the country. Concerned with advocacy and education on fair housing matters, the Coalition played a major role in the first federal fair housing suit filed on behalf of women and children living in rental housing. Daney continues her community service as Vice-President of the Board of Trustees for Info Line of Middlesex County, as an officer of the rent leveling board in the borough of Highland Park, and as a facilitator for community dialogues on racism and other prejudices. She has served as an advisor to numerous New Jersey/New York social and housing policy bodies, including the Federal Home Loan Bank in New York City and a New Jersey governor’s task force on discrimination.

Lucy V. Vidal, Information Manager, has been with CWGL since 1996. Previously, she worked at the Center for Social and Legal Research as Senior Assistant Editor of their newsletter, Privacy & American Business, coordinator of their national conference and as a researcher. Vidal has had various duties at CWGL. She coordinated logistics for the 1998 Women's Global Leadership Institute, the 1998 Global Tribunal to Celebrate and Demand Women's Human Rights and was part of the onsite facilitation team at the 1998 Feminism in the Muslim World Leadership Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. She then went on to manage CWGL's work in information and communication technologies. Vidal currently handles the Center's publications and archives, maintains the website and resource center and serves as the United Nations liaison. She graduated from Rutgers College, Rutgers University, with a B.A. in Political Science and recently completed a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science.