Lucina Di Meco
Bio:
Lucina Di Meco is a senior expert, advocate, and writer on women’s leadership and gender equality. She’s a global fellow at the Wilson Center, where she researches women’s leadership in public service, as well as the senior director of girls’ education at Room to Read, an international nonprofit promoting gender equality through education.
Throughout her career, Lucina has worked in various capacities for a wide range of international nonprofits (including Vital Voices, International IDEA, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy), three UN agencies (UN Women, UNDP, and UNIDO), and the OECD. She has written for The Hill, The Huffington Post, Ms., and New America, and her research has been featured in Time, Voice of America, Politico, and Council on Foreign Relations.
Lucina has a magna cum laude in political science from the University of Turin (Italy), a Master in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia (UK), a Diploma in Gender Studies from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Mexico, and is a Harvard Women and Power Alumna. Lucina is also the co-founder of The Gender Breakfast, a network of gender equality experts based in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves on the advisory board of FundHer, an organization dedicated to electing progressive women to state legislatures.
Research shows that social media exposes female politicians to online abuse, but it also enables them to engage directly with their constituencies without the bias of mass media.
