Please join us as we welcome Professor Anne Firth Murray for her talk titled “Critical Issues in International Women’s Health and Education”. Professor Murray is an author, the founder of the Global Fund for Women, one of the world’s largest NGO’s funding women’s human rights, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Foege Auditorium | Genome Sciences Building
Her two books are titled Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice and Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change.
Anne Firth Murray, a New Zealander, has worked in the field of philanthropy for over 25 years. From 1978 to the end of 1987, she directed the environment and international population programs of the Hewlett Foundation in California. She is the Founding President of The Global Fund for Women, which provides funds internationally to seed, strengthen, and link groups committed to women’s well-being. Currently, she is a scholar/activist at the Union Institute and a Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University. Ms. Murray is the recipient of many awards and honors for her work on women’s health and philanthropy. In 2005 she was nominated as one of a group of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize. She has written two books, Paradigm Found:
Leading and Managing for Positive Change and From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice (with a foreword by Paul Farmer).
