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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.
Alison DeCamp is the IAWJ Program Coordinator and was previously the Development and Program Assistant. She is the coordinator for the IAWJ's Afghan Judicial Education Program and assists with the coordination of other IAWJ programs, including the IAWJ biennial international conference, the Global Forum for Women and Justice, as well as other special events. Fluent in German, Ms. DeCamp spent 2004-2005 teaching English to Austrian students at a business high school in Vienna, Austria. She received her BA in International Studies and German from the University of South Carolina Honors College (2003). Ms. DeCamp spent the 2001-2002 school year studying at Karl Franzens Universität in Graz, Austria. Throughout her two years in Austria, she traveled to many Eastern European countries, including Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. Prior to coming to the IAWJ, Ms. DeCamp also worked as an administrative assistant at a property title insurance company in Columbia, SC.
Susan Nich is the Office Manager for the IAWJ. Before to joining the IAWJ in January of 2009, Ms. Nich worked as a Finance Associate for an architectural firm. Most of her professional experience has been in non-profit administration and systems development. She worked in administration and capacity-building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and, more recently, as the Office Manager for the International Rescue Committee's Office of Advocacy and Government Relations in Washington, D.C.
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.
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