A Conversation with Past Isabel S. Marcus International Fellowship Awardees
In Honor of Isabel Marcus, Professor of Law, Gender Institute Co-Founder, and former chair of Women’s Studies

Fernanda Glaser is a Fulbright scholar from Chile who has a doctorate from the Global Gender Studies program of SUNY, Buffalo. She is a feminist activist and an organizer in grassroots and NGOs working for social justice and women’s rights. Today, she works at the National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR), where she serves as a social scientist in the northern city of La Serena.

Elif Ege is a recent PhD graduate in the Global Gender Studies program. She completed her BA in Political Science and International Relations in Bogazici University, Turkey, and her MA degree in Sociology, in Koc University, Turkey. She wrote her dissertation on the Kurdish and Turkish women’s movements in Turkey and their multi-tiered collaborations and negotiations around the international norms and standards of women’s rights across local, national and global levels of feminist activism.

Gabriella Nassif focuses on issues of labor, gender and development in the Arab region with a specific focus on Lebanon.She has spent the last few years living between Buffalo, N.Y. and Beirut, Lebanon where she works with the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) and teaches undergraduate courses at the Lebanese American University. In Beirut, she has worked as an independent research consultant to a number of organizations, including UN Women, UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Population Fund both in Lebanon and the regional office in Cairo.

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