Rebecca Turkington
Bio:
Rebecca Turkington joined the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security in 2013 from the National Democratic Institute, where she worked on women's political participation in transitional democracies. She previously interned at the Moroccan Ministry of Interior on women and local governance, and was a research assistant for the Wellesley Centers for Women, where she helped implement the inaugural Women in Public Service Project Institute. Turkington received a bachelor's in international relations and history from Wellesley College, where she was a Fellow at the Madeleine K. Albright Institute for Global Affairs and an Anchor Point Fellow. She is currently pursuing a master's in security studies at Georgetown University.
The Honorable Mary Robinson is the founder and president of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and serves as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She was the first female president of Ireland from 1990-1997 and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002, and is a global leader on issues of women’s empowerment and human rights. In July 2013, I sat down with her to discuss climate justice and the role of women in the fight for peace.
