Ellen Chesler Biography

With over thirty years of experience in government philanthropy and academia Ellen Chesler is widely respected for the practical and intellectual perspectives she brings to public policy.
Ellen joined the Roosevelt Institute as a Senior Fellow in the fall of 2010. Earlier this year Ellen and Columbia University Professor Terry McGovern published the new essay collection Women and Girls Rising: Progress and resistance around the world. The book details the stories of those fighting for women’s rights around the world including the history of the “Women’s Rights as Human Rights” movement.
From 2007-2010 Ellen was Distinguished Lecturer at Roosevelt House the public policy institute of Hunter College of the City University of New York. For the decade prior she served as a senior fellow and program director at the Open Society Institute the international foundation started by George Soros where she developed and executed the foundation’s multi-million dollar global investments in reproductive health and women’s rights and advised on a range of other program initiatives. Her work with women combined support for policy research and advocacy public education and litigation with strategic investments in new birth control products and model service innovations that promise long-term benefits in public health in the United States and in many countries around the world.

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