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Joan D. Winship is Executive Director of the International Association of Women Judges. Ms. Winship has many years of experience working on international issues, including international organizations, human rights, gender, and global higher education. She has served as a consultant/trainer for rule of law and human rights programs in such diverse places as Afghanistan, Jordan, Bangladesh, Russia, and the Philippines. Prior to coming to the IAWJ, she was Advisor for Strategic Alliances for Vital Voices Global Partnership, Vice President at the Stanley Foundation, and also Director of Women Waging Peace. She has more than twenty years of experience as a college administrator and professor of political science. Ms. Winship is a Trustee of the American University of Rome, and served on the advisory board of the Global Alliance for Women's Health. She was a founding board member of US Women Connect and a founding Fellow of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. Ms. Winship received her B.A. degree from Western Maryland (McDaniel) College and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007 she received the McDaniel Trustee Award for professional accomplishments from the Board of Trustees of McDaniel College, Maryland, USA, and in 2008 she was awarded the "Judicial Medal of Merit of José de Mesquito" by the Judiciary of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, for contributions to the judiciary and to justice for all.
Anne Tierney Goldstein, Esq., has been the Human Rights Education Director of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) since 1993. She designed the IAWJ's Jurisprudence of Equality Program and has provided leadership for JEP training programs in Central and Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Ms. Goldstein spent three years as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice and two years Washington, D.C. office of Hogan and Hartson before entering the non-profit world. An expert on international law and women's rights, she has taught undergraduate and law school courses on women and the law, transnational family law, and comparative and international law of women's rights at Georgetown University, and George Washington University in Washington, DC, and at the joint Oxford-George Washington summer program in human rights in Oxford, UK.
Caroline Gross is a 2011-2012 Yale Law School Gruber Fellow in Global Justice and Women’s Rights with the IAWJ. Prior to her fellowship, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Stanley Marcus of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Miami. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2010, and she graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2005, with an A.B. in History and Science and a Certificate in Latin American Studies. Prior to law school, she worked as the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fellow for United Nations Watch, a human rights organization based in Geneva, and as the Coordinator of Science Education Programs for the Carr Foundation in Mozambique. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese and conversational in Hebrew.
Nancy Hendry joined the IAWJ in June 2010 and serves as Senior Advisor. An former attorney with the Family Permanency Project of The Children's Law Center since 2005, she was honored as 2010 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year by the DC Bar Association for that work. Nancy has been managing the IAWJ’s three-year Sextortion project that is funded by the MDG3 Fund of the Netherlands. Previously, Nancy was Vice President Deputy General Counsel for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. A former General Counsel of the Peace Corps during the Clinton Administration, she was responsible for protecting the legal interests of the agency and its volunteers around the world.
Kelly Memphis joined the IAWJ in January 2009. Currently the Program Coordinator, she completed an internship with the IAWJ in the summer of 2008, and rejoined the IAWJ staff after graduating from Towson University with honors in December 2008. While at Towson, Ms. Memphis studied French, Political Science, and International Studies, with a personal focus on International Human Rights Law as well as Arabic and Islamic culture. She also spent a semester studying and traveling in Australia and New Zealand. In addition to other responsibilities, she is coordinating the IAWJ’s Judicial Education Program for Afghan Women Judges.
Winta Menghis is the IAWJ’s Program Officer for Africa. She joined the IAWJ in August 2009 after working at an immigration law firm as a Legal Associate. Prior to that, Ms. Menghis worked extensively on women’s rights issues with several non-profit organizations including the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Tahirih Justice Center. After graduating with an LL.M. from New York University School of Law as a Hauser Global Scholar where she focused on international human rights law, Ms. Menghis worked for the Volcker Panel Review of the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity. Ms. Menghis also worked as a law clerk intern at Human Rights Watch where she focused on counterterrorism policies. She has her law degree from the University of Asmara, Eritrea, and has been an active volunteer on behalf of women both in Eritrea and in the United States.
Judy Rein manages the IAWJ’s human trafficking program with our partner association in Argentina, the Asociación de mujeres jueces de Argentina (AMJA). Judy has a J.D. from New York University, where she received a fellowship in international law. She has diverse experience as a lawyer and program manager, and has worked on access to justice, women in development and legal reform projects. She is fluent in Spanish, and has served as English translator from Spanish and Portuguese on legal and business matters and scholarly publications.
