Hostname: page-component-6587cd75c8-6qszs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-24T08:16:15.417Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

ASIL Assembly and Keynote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2024

Gregory Shaffer
Affiliation:
Professor at Georgetown Law; ASIL President.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Affiliation:
Law & Society Association.
S. Mona Sinha
Affiliation:
Equality Now.

Extract

Okay. Now is the moment we have been waiting for. It is my pleasure to welcome to the stage Sharmila Mona Sinha and Michele Goodwin for a keynote conversation. Mona Sinha is a globally recognized advocate, thought leader, and philanthropist who works tirelessly on behalf of gender equality in business and in society. She co-led the largest-to-date capital campaign for women's education, totaling nearly a half-a-billion dollars. Mona's career began in finance, spanning Morgan Stanley, Unilever, and the restructuring of Elizabeth Arden/Unilever, to her critical work today at the intersection of social justice and women's leadership. She has been described as having a muscle for finance and a passion for justice. She has worn many hats in advocating for human rights and advancement of girls and women. She currently serves as Board Chair of Women Moving Millions, a community of women who fund boldly, committing at least a million dollars each year to lifting the lives of women and girls, Chair of the ERA Coalition Fund for Women's Equality, and Vice Chair of the Executive Council of the Smithsonian's American Women's History Museum. Today Mona is Global Executive Director of Equality Now, a critically important feminist organization that uses law to promote and protect the human rights of all women and girls throughout the globe. She and her colleagues create, reform, challenge, and apply the law to establish enduring equality for women and girls throughout the world.

Type
Lecture
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of International Law

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

Footnotes

The Assembly was convened at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2023, by ASIL President Gregory Shaffer, who introduced the Assembly Speaker, S. Mona Sinha of Equality Now, and the Assembly Discussant, Michele Bratcher Goodwin of the Law & Society Association.