Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowships2003-2004 Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellows
Radhika Chandiramani
Radhika Chandiramani is a clinical psychologist working with the organization Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI ) and is based in New Delhi, India. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development in 1995, Ms. Chandiramani currently focuses her work and research on issues related to women's sexuality, pleasure and ethics. Most recently, she has served as a regular "sexuality advice" columnist for an Indian national newspaper.
Martha Davis
Martha F. Davis is an Associate Professor at Northeastern School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, where she specializes in women’s rights, immigration law, employment discrimination and poverty law. Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern, Professor Davis was the Vice President and Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. She is the author of the prizewinning book, Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, and has written widely on issues relating to women’s rights, human rights, welfare and violence against women. Professor Davis has participated as counsel in a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and she argued Nguyen v. INS, an equal protection case, before the Court in 2001. Professor Davis holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Benno de Keijzer
A physician based in Xalapa, Mexico, Benno de Keijzer holds a masters degree in Social Anthropology and is currently working to complete a doctorate in Community Mental Health. A previous recipient of Ashoka and MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, Dr. de Keijzer has published two books on community participation in health and on gender and sexuality in a rural community, as well as numerous articles on men, gender and health issues. As a co-founder of the national health network Produssep and coordinator of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Salud y Género, Dr. de Keijzer has worked for the past several years to promote health and gender equity through educational and public policy initiatives. In addition to his current work with local-level NGOs, Dr. de Keijzer serves as a project-based consultant with USAID, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF/WHR), EngenderHealth, UNICEF, and the ReproSalud project in Peru.
Jessica Horn
A recent graduate of the program on Gender and Development at the London School of Economics, Jessica Horn currently works with the non-governmental organization (NGO) Research, Action, and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO), as a coordinator for an African-based sexual and reproductive health and rights initiative. She began her involvement and interest in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights working with a grass-roots HIV/AIDS education program in the Fiji Islands and has published articles on her scholarly work in the journals Development and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.
Ayesha Imam
Ayesha Imam, Ph.D. has worked extensively on research, advocacy and education to protect and extend women's human rights issues under customary, secular and religious laws. She was a core group member of the international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and a founding director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights in Nigeria, for which she received the John Humphrey Freedom Award in 2002. The co-initiator and director of the first Gender Institute in Africa, Dr. Imam has also served as the Gender Policy Advisor for the United Nations Institute for Economic Development and Planning in Senegal. Dr. Imam has published numerous journal articles, books and program reviews, including Engendering African Social Sciences and two special issues of African Development: Re-Visiting Gender I and II.
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega attended graduate training at the London School of Economics and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. As a full-time researcher and professor at El Colegio de México, Dr. Ortiz-Ortega became a fellow of the National Research System in Mexico in 2002, a distinction awarded for research and scholarship. Throughout her tenure at El Colegio de Mexico, Dr. Ortiz-Ortega has served as a consultant for numerous agencies, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Population Council, and the Center for Women´s Global Leadership, based at Rutgers University. She has received research awards and fellowships from the Overseas Research Council (UK), CONACYT (Mexico), and the Ford, Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations. Her most recent book, “Si los hombres se embarazaran, ¿el aborto sería legal?” (If Men Could Become Pregnant, Would Abortion be Legal?), has been recommended by numerous scholars working in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Lisa Ann Richey
Lisa Ann Richey is currently working as a researcher at the Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conducted post-doctoral research in anthropological demography at the Department of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has published extensively on issues of gender and development, family planning and population policy, and is completing a book entitled Global Knowledge on Local Bodies: Population Policies, Family Planning and Development. Her ongoing research work combines public health, political studies, and anthropological approaches to analyze international discourses on population, health and gender.
Edwin Winckler
Edwin Winckler is a political scientist who analyzes contemporary East Asian political development, particularly in China and Taiwan. He holds degrees from Harvard University in government and Asian studies, and he has taught at Harvard, Columbia University and the University of California. More than two decades ago, he pioneered the application of organization theory to the analysis of policy cycles in the People’s Republic of China and pioneered fieldwork on policy processes on Taiwan. His published works include the co-edited volumes Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan (Sharpe, 1988) and Transition from Communism in China (Rienner, 1999). Most recently, Mr. Winckler has worked closely with officials of China’s population programs to assist in reorienting their programs to incorporate reproductive rights perspectives and human rights-based approaches.
