Nobel Women's Initiative

Liz Bernstein
Executive Director

Liz Bernstein is the founding Director of the Nobel Women's Initiative. Previously, Liz served as Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) from 1998 through 2004. Liz participated in the campaign since it began in the early 1990s. She lived in Thailand and Cambodia for 10 years (1986-1996), where she worked with local advocacy organizations on various peace, justice and policy issues. She co-founded the Coalition for Peace and Reconciliation and helped found the Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines. She also coordinated Make Poverty History Canada in 2005. Liz currently lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Liz can be reached at lbernstein@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 111
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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Janhabi Nandy

Janhabi Nandy is the Manager of Policy and Advocacy for the Nobel Women's Initiative.  She joined the team in June 2009. Previously, Janhabi worked as an attorney serving the Pacific island nation of Micronesia as an Assistant Attorney General, working as a disability rights attorney on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and representing plaintiffs in civil rights and toxic tort cases in New York.  Janhabi recently graduated with an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Janhabi can be reached at jnandy@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 112
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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Rachel Vincent
Manager, Media and Communications

Rachel Vincent is the Manager of Media and Communications for Nobel Women's Initiative. She joined the team in April 2008. Rachel started her career as a radio journalist, working for six years in Canada, the US and Mexico, including hosting an afternoon radio program in Mexico City. She left journalism to be the head of communications for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal. For the last 16 years, Rachel has turned her in-depth undersanding of media towards advising NGO's and others on how to communicate their messages most effectively through media. She has worked as a senior communications advisor, speechwriter and media strategist for not-for-profit groups and governments on international and social justice issues, environment and health. Rachel also volunteers for the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), and is an active mother of three and stepmother of two.

Rachel can be reached at rvincent@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 113
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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Kimberley MacKenzie
Program Associate, Advocacy and Communications

Kimberley MacKenzie is the Program Associate, Advocacy and Communications, for the Nobel Women’s Initiative.  Prior to this she worked for five years at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.  There she was the founding Co-ordinator of the Public Education Program, responsible for devising and implementing public education, cross cultural training, advocacy, and communications strategies and programming for the organization. She studied Political Science and has a passion for travel and learning languages.

Kim can be reached at kmackenzie@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 114
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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Kelly Fish is the Africa Advocacy Coordinator for the Nobel Women's Initiative.  Kelly joined the team in September 2009.  Previously, Kelly worked as a gender-based violence and gender specialist throughout Sub-Saharan Africa including with UNICEF in the Great Lakes Region and Swaziland, the International Rescue Committee in Liberia and Burundi, Christian Children's Fund in Uganda and Chad, Handicap International in Kenya, GOAL in Malawi, as well as the Initiative for Inclusive Security in Sudan. Kelly holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University's School of International Service with specialized research on gender and peace-building, including as a recipient of the NSEP Boren Graduate Fellowship for field work in Northern Uganda.

Kelly is based at the Nobel Women's Initiative office in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by the Greenbelt Movement.  She can be reached at kfish@nobelwomensinitiative.org. 

Tel: +254 736 423121

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Lesley Hoyles
Coordinator, Events and Operations

Lesley Hoyles is the Coordinator of Events and Operations with the Nobel Women's Initiative. She holds a BA with a major in Women's Studies from the University of British Columbia, and a Certificate in Event Management from Algonquin College.  Prior to joining the Nobel Women's Initiative team in June 2010, she worked for a number of non-profit organizations, including Planned Parenthood Toronto and Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa.  Lesley is passionate about women's rights and reproductive rights.  She is also a musician and a cyclist.

Lesley can be reached at lhoyles@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 116
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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Brianna is the Graduate Assistant for the Nobel Women's Initiative Houston Office. Brianna is a second-year graduate student obtaining a degree in Social Work with a health disparities certificate at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work. Brianna graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelors of Science in Human Development and Family Studies, with a focus in women's studies. Her interests include global climate change, health disparities, and women's rights.

Brianna is based at the Nobel Women's Initiative office at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston. She can be reached at assistant@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1 713 743 8792

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Ellen Morgan is the Events and Outreach Associate with the Nobel Women's Initiative. A recent graduate of Oxford University's Department of International Development, she also has a BA in Geography from the University of British Columbia. Keenly interested in the intersection of environmental governance and  development, her research has focused on conflicts over natural resources, indigenous rights and the political economy of extractive industry. A former volunteer with the British Red Cross Humanitarian Education Network, she co-ordinated the 2009 Students for Development Conference and was a founding member of the 2006 Glaciers Girls and Granite Expedition. Ellen is also an avid triathlete, rower and outdoorsperson.