Biography
Ellen Chesler was recently named to lead the new Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy at Roosevelt House, Hunter College, The City University of New York. As an enduring tribute to the Mrs. Roosevelt's proud legacy of accomplishment in social welfare and human rights, the new program will pursue a broad ranging agenda of research, publications, convenings, forums, and applied public policy advocacy to advance the rights and needs of women and families in the United States and around the world.
Ellen Chesler is author of the award winning Women of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, 1992. She is co-editor with Wendy Chavkin, MD., of Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, and Women in the New Millennium, 2005. She has written essays and reviews in many anthologies and in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Prospect, The Women's Review of Books, and Ms. Magazine. Chesler has taught at Barnard College and in the City University of New York. Early in her career, she also worked in New York City government as Chief of Staff to New York City Council President, Carol Bellamy, and she has long been active in politics and civic life in New York She is a graduate of Vassar College and holds a Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University. |
