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Meet the Staff
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 experience as a college administrator and professor of political science. Ms. Winship is a Trustee of the American University of Rome, and 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.
Kristin St. John is the Office Manager for the IAWJ. Before joining the IAWJ in November 2009, Ms. St. John worked as the Grassroots Advocacy Coordinator for the Arthritis Foundation's public policy office. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, where she majored in Journalism and African American Studies, most of her professional work experience after college has been with various non-profit associations. Previously, Ms. St. John worked as a Human Resources Assistant for the Staff Development Division of the International Monetary Fund
Kelly Memphis joined the IAWJ as Program Assistant in January 2009. 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.
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.
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