16 Facts About Charlotte Bunch

Charlotte Anne Bunch was born on October 13,1944 and is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements.

Charlotte Bunch is a distinguished professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers.

Charlotte Bunch attended public schools in Artesia before enrolling at Duke University in 1962.

Charlotte Bunch has said that she participated in "pray-ins" organized by the Methodist Student Movement at Duke University, but later took a "break" from Christianity because of the homophobia within the religion.

Charlotte Bunch has been extremely active in political movements for decades and is openly lesbian.

Shortly after graduating from Duke University, Charlotte Bunch became a youth delegate to the World Council of Churches Conference on Church and Society in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1977, Charlotte Bunch became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Charlotte Bunch participated in or facilitated numerous international workshops and conferences, and from 1979 to 1980 she was a consultant to the secretariat for the World Conference for the United Nations Decade on Women which was hosted by WIFP.

Charlotte Bunch was succeeded as executive director by Radhika Balakrishnan in September 2009.

At its 20th-anniversary symposium on March 6,2010, following panel discussions on body, economy, and movement, CWGL organized a tribute to its founder, Charlotte Bunch, who transitioned on September 1,2009, from her role as executive director to working with CWGL in her new capacity as founding director and senior scholar.

Charlotte Bunch has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, and on the boards of the Global Fund for Women and the International Council on Human Rights Policy.

Charlotte Bunch has been a consultant to many United Nations bodies and recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General's 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women.

Charlotte Bunch has voiced her support for the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations.

In October 1996, Charlotte Bunch was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Charlotte Bunch has written and edited many pieces of work, which focus on women's rights and human rights.

The papers of Charlotte Bunch can be found at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute.