Office Staff
Executive Coordinator
Sarah Taylor, the Executive Coordinator of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, researches and writes on women, peace and security. She has worked and conducted research in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and has taught on gender, violence, and education. She received her M.A. with distinction in Political Science from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with a focus on nationalism and gender in Eastern Europe, and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the New School University in New York, conducting a comparative analysis of high-level women negotiators.
Program Associate
Kristina Mader is a graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in International Relations with a focus on women, conflict and human rights. She is currently pursuing her M.S. in Global Affairs, concentrating on transnational security, at New York University. Before joining the NGOWG, she worked at Western Washington University as Director of the Resource and Outreach Programs, a group of offices which provides services, both legal and social, to minorities, non-traditional students, and women. In addition, she worked with the PeaceWomen Project in the UN Office of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, and continues to be engaged in the work of that office, particularly in their ongoing monitoring of the Security Council.
Current Research Assistants
Deborah Accurso
Current Interns
Laura Cheung
Janine Zaltsman
Previous Coordinators
Cora True-Frost
Katherine Haver
Jenny Perlman
Isha Dyfan
Previous Program Assistants
Elspeth Montegomery
Program Assistant
Rebecca Chiarelli
Program Assistant
Jessica Brown
Program Assistant
Previous Interns
Isabelle Cutting
Intern, Spring - Fall 2011
Taina Varga
Intern, Fall 2011
Dawn Turek
Intern, Fall 2011
Consuelo Serra-Giner
Intern, Fall 2011
Hallen Korn
Intern, Summer 2011
Susanna Ferguson
Intern, Spring 2011
Victoria Webbe
Intern, Spring 2011
Alessandra Radicati
Intern, Fall 2010
Birce Altiok
Intern, Fall 2010
Yannick Reyering
Intern, Fall 2010
Maureen Shaw
Intern, Spring & Summer 2010
Katrina Clydesdale
Intern, Summer 2010
Emily Puckart
Intern, Fall 2009
Simran Sachdev
Intern, Fall 2009
Rachel Sorey
Intern
Mahima Achuthan
Intern, Summer 2006
Member Organizations
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