Women Peace and Security 
Important Steps: A Big Moment for Women, Peace, and Security in Congress(Comments Off on Important Steps: A Big Moment for Women, Peace, and Security in Congress)
by Lila O’Brien-Milne, WAND Women, Peace, and Security Fellow On Tuesday, March 22, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held the first-ever full committee hearing on the role of women in peace and security. The Committee heard testimony from Monica McWilliams, Professor of Women’s Studies at the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University and signatory […]
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Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”
by Eliza McNamara, WAND Intern, Arlington, MA Fannie Lou Hamer was a fiercely brave American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, and is most known for her testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, which unsettled President Johnson to the point that he tried to prevent it from ever being seen. Hamer was the youngest […]
Shirley Chisolm: Unbought and Unbossed
by Mikaela Romero, WAND Intern, Washington, DC Few individuals have combined an agenda for change with the ability to navigate American politics the way Shirley Chisholm did. Born in New York to immigrant Caribbean parents, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm later went on to become the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in […]
International Women’s Day: Following Malala’s Lead
By Lila O’Brien-Milne, WAND Women, Peace, and Security Fellow Malala Yousafzai is an interesting subject for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month because she is so young, and presumably has history left to make. Iconic women are larger than life in that they are both individual people and symbols, and how we speak about […]
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