Charlotte Bunch
(1944-)

American Founder of the Center for Women's Global Leadership
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
National Women's Hall of Fame

birthdate: October 13
birthplace: Ashe County, North Carolina

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Charlotte Bunch is an American author, professor, activist and organizer in the women's and human rights movements. In 1989 she founded the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, and continues to be its executive director as well as professor of Women's and Gender Studies. For over three decades, Charlotte Bunch has been a major voice for bringing issues of gender and sexual orientation into human rights work all around the world, through her written works and as an advisor to international human rights organizations and speaker at United Nations and other international conferences. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996 and in 1999 was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President Bill Clinton. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 Women For Peace project.