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Meet the Staff
Joan D. Winship is Executive Director of the IAWJ, Ms. Winship directs IAWJ programming worldwide, manages the international headquarters, and provides creative leadership to support the work of IAWJ members, judicial training programs, and other activities of the IAWJ. Ms. Winship has many years of experience working on international issues, including international organizations, human rights, gender, and global higher education and has worked as an international consultant in these fields through her own firm, Winship Consulting. Recently she has authored several reports for USAID focusing on the Gender Action Plans of various international and national development organizations. Previously, she was Advisor for Strategic Alliances for Vital Voices Global Partnership, where she developed and coordinated the Vital Voices Global Leadership Institute in collaboration with Georgetown University. From 1994-2000, she was Vice President at the Stanley Foundation, where she served as head of Outreach and International Programs. She also served as Director of Women Waging Peace, a network of women in conflict and post-conflict situations then based at Hunt Alternatives and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 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, on the advisory boards of US Women Connect and the Global Alliance for Women's Health, and was a founding Fellow of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
Since 1993, Anne Tierney Goldstein has been the Human Rights Education Director for the International Association of Women Judges. In that capacity, she has designed and run or supervised training programs for judges and judicial trainers in eleven countries on five continents, one isthmus and an archipelago. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, Ms. Goldstein spent three years as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice and two years with the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan and Hartson before entering the non-profit world. As an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center and now George Washington National Law Center, she has taught courses on Women and the Law and Human Rights of Women, and is currently teaching International and Comparative Family Law.
Ms. Adryan R. Wallace is the Program Officer for Africa for the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ). Prior to joining the IAWJ Ms. Wallace was President of ARW& Associates LLC, a Maryland based consulting firm providing research, policy briefs, and program development for NGOs. During that time she worked on projects with the Constituency for Africa and the Phelps Stokes Fund. Ms. Wallace spent 10 months lecturing on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Namibian, Global & UNAIDS policy and African Cultural Anthropology at the International University of Management in Windhoek, Namibia through the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help's (IFESH) Teachers for Africa program. In May 2003 she joined the International Human Rights Law Group (Global Rights), as a consultant in the Women's Rights Advocacy Program (WRAP), she designed for publication "A Practical Guide for Inheritance Rights" created for African NGOs facilitating women's inheritance rights. Ms. Wallace has a MA degree in African Studies with a focus on gender and development from Howard University. She earned her BS in Psychology with a concentration in behaviorism and a minor in African Studies from the University of Florida.
Thuan Do is the Grants, Communication and Membership Manager for the IAWJ. She has been with the organization since May 2001, originally working as Office Manager where she brought solid administrative skills as well as a strong commitment to women's human rights to her position. Born in Vietnam, she and her family immigrated to the United States in 1983. She received her B.S. from Georgetown University in International Relations in May of 2000. In the 1998-99 academic year, she studied at the University de la Sorbonne in Paris, France, becoming fluent in French. Prior to coming to the IAWJ, she worked as the office manager for a software development firm in northern Virginia and, at the same time, developed storylines for a syndicated journalist. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in International Development at George Washington University.
Alison DeCamp became the IAWJ Development and Program Assistant after completing an internship with the IAWJ in the fall of 2005. Fluent in German, Alison 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 in December 2003. Alison spent the 2001-2002 school year studying at Karl Franzens Universität in Graz, Austria. Prior to coming to the IAWJ, Alison also worked as an administrative assistant at a property title insurance company in Columbia, SC.
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