Birth: NULL/NULL/1951 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem on 24 Aug. 1951; was educated in the Schmidt’s Girls College in Jerusalem and graduated from high school in 1969; received a BA from Tennessee University in 1973; served as Director of the Quakers Legal Aid Services; works as English language teacher at Birzeit University and the Ramallah Women’s Teacher Training Center; co-founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) in Jerusalem since 1991; received the French Republic Human Rights Award in 1998 and the 2002 Ms. Woman of the Year Award in the US; was a Board Member of the International Jury of the Body Shop Human Rights Award from 1998-2002 and of Equality Now (an international human rights organization dedicated to promote the rights of girls and women); serves on the Board of several local and Palestinian human rights organizations, incl. PARC, the Jerusalem Link, and the Jerusalem Legal Aid & Human Rights Center.
