Women Cross DMZ
Women Cross DMZ is a global movement of women mobilizing for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Staff
- Christine Ahn Executive Director
- Hyun Lee National Campaign and Advocacy Strategist
- Kathleen Ok-soo Richards Communications Director
- Colleen Moore Advocacy Coordinator
- Elizabeth Beavers Advisor on Advocacy
- Hyunsook Cho Organizer
- Susan Yohn Administrative and Financial Director
- Jacquelyn Wells Admin Coordinator[1]
Board Members
- Aiyoung Choi Board President
- Marie Berry Committee Member
- Wendi Deetz Board Treasurer
- Nan Kim, PH.D. Committee Member
- Ann Wright Secretary
- Amelia Wu Committee Member
- Ji-Yeon Yuh Committee Member[2]
Advisory Board Members
- Kozue Akibayashi, Professor, Doshisha University, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Japan
- Coleen Baik, Former Senior Designer, Twitter, USA
- Medea Benjamin, Co-founder, Code Pink, USA
- Abigail Disney, Filmmaker and Philanthropist, USA
- Cynthia Enloe, Professor, Clark University
- Jodie Evans, Co-founder, Code Pink
- Ewa Eriksson Fortier, Retired Humanitarian Aid Worker, Sweden
- Meri Joyce, Peace Boat, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict Northeast Asia Regional Coordinator, Australia/Japan
- Eleana Kim, Professor, University of California, Irvine
- Suzy Kim, Professor, Rutgers University
- Namhee Lee, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Sung-ok Lee, Secretary General, United Methodist Women
- M. Brinton Lykes, Professor, Boston University, Center for Human Rights
- Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland
- Liza Maza, Gabriela Women's Alliance, Philippines
- Lisa Natividad, Guahan Coalition for Peace & Justice, Guahan
- Hye-Jung Park, Media Activist, USA
- Jay Song, Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Gloria Steinem, Activist, Writer, Lecturer & Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom, USA
- Yifat Susskind, Executive Director, MADRE, USA
- Alice Walker, Author and Activist, USA
- Cora Weiss, Representative to the UN, International Peace Bureau, USA
- Cindy Wiesner, Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice, USA[3]
Korean parliamentary delegation
In March 2019, an international delegation of women peacebuilders traveled to Washington, D.C., New York, and Ottawa to officially launch the women-led global campaign Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War.
In Washington, D.C., the delegation of women — which included three Parliamentarians from South Korea (R.O.K) — met with members of Congress to discuss how to advance a new U.S. policy on North Korea that improves security for everyone. This included a breakfast roundtable with Reps. Barbara Lee and Jan Schakowsky, both co-sponsors of H.Res. 152, which calls for an end to the Korean War, and the discussion of a possible joint commission of U.S. and R.O.K. lawmakers and civil society. The delegation also met with Sen. Bernie Sanders and urged him to introduce a Senate companion bill to H.Res. 152.
Also in D.C., two of the Parliamentarians, Kwon Mi Hyuk and Lee Jae Jung, both members of the South Korean National Assembly, spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on the importance of pushing the Korea peace process forward. Among the attendees were employees of the Department of Homeland Security, the RAND Corporation, and the Federation of American Scientists.[4]
