Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership and Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, has been an activist, writer and organizer in the feminist, LGBT, and human rights movements for over four decades. Bunch's contributions to conceptualizing and organizing for women's human rights have been recognized by many including the National Women's Hall of Fame, the White House Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, being one of the 1000 Women Peace Makers' nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Connecticut.

Charlotte is currently on the Board of AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development), Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, and the Advisory Committee for the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She has written numerous influential essays, edited nine anthologies and authored Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights.