Charlotte Bunch
| Charlotte Bunch | |
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| Born |
October 13, 1944 North Carolina |
| Education | Duke University |
| Occupation |
Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Center for Women's Global Leadership Board of Governor's Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies Activist Author |
| Known for | Founding the Center for Women's Global Leadership |
| Notable work | Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action, Class and Feminism, Gender Violence: A Development and Human Rights Issue, Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights |
| Awards |
Awards include: "Feminist of the Year Award" to the Center for Women's Global Leadership by the Feminist Majority Foundation (1993) Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1996) "Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights" President Bill Clinton (1999) "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" Women's Enews (2002) "Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Recipient" Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2002) "New Jersey Honorary United Nations Day Chair" Appointed by the Governor of New Jersey (2004) "Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws" University of Connecticut (2007) "Joyce Warshow Lifetime Achievement Award" Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) (2008) |
Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Center for Women's Global Leadership
Board of Governor's Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies
Activist
Awards include:
"Feminist of the Year Award" to the Center for Women's Global Leadership by the Feminist Majority Foundation (1993)
Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1996)
"Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights" President Bill Clinton (1999)
"21 Leaders for the 21st Century" Women's Enews (2002)
"Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Recipient" Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2002)
"New Jersey Honorary United Nations Day Chair" Appointed by the Governor of New Jersey (2004)
"Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws" University of Connecticut (2007)
Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is also a distinguished professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers.
Bunch, one of four children to Charles Pardue Bunch and Marjorie Adelaide (King) Bunch, was born in West Jefferson, North Carolina. That same year, her family moved to Artesia, New Mexico. She attended public schools in Artesia before enrolling at Duke University in 1962.
She was a history major at Duke and graduated magna cum laude in 1966, and was involved with many groups such as the Young Women's Christian Association and the Methodist Student Movement. Bunch has said that she participated in "pray-ins" organized by the Methodist Student Movement at Duke University, but later took a "break" from Christianity because of the homophobia within the religion.
She has been extremely active in political movements for decades and is openly lesbian. She found inspiration for being a women's and human rights activist through her family's dedication to "activism as good works."
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