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

Janhabi Nandy

Manager, Policy and Advocacy

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

Rachel Vincent
Manager, Media and Communications

Rachel Vincent is the Manager of Media and Communications for Nobel Women's Initiative. Rachel started her career as a radio journalist working in Canada and Mexico. Since 1994, she has worked as a senior communications advisor with not-for-profit groups and governments on international issues, environment and health. She also volunteers for the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), and is an active Quaker and mother of three.

Rachel can be reached at rvincent@nobelwomensinitiative.org.

Tel: +1.613.569.8400 ext. 113
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

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

Julaine Eberhard
Co-ordinator, Burma Tribunal

Julaine Eberhard is the Co-ordinator of the upcoming Burma Tribunal for the Nobel Women's Initiative, in partnership with the Women's League of Burma. She joined the NWI team in May 2009 after practicing child protection law in Toronto. Julaine previously worked for six years at Shared Interest, a New York based international economic development NGO that partners with South Africans to overcome the legacy of economic apartheid. Julaine's role at NWI is a natural extension of her doctoral work on truth and reconciliation models, including South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and reflects her ongoing commitment to addressing international justice and human rights issues. Julaine is a member of the Toronto Working Group of the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ).

Julaine can be reached at jeberhard@nobelwomensinitiative.org

Tel: +1.416.977.6238
Fax: +1.613.241.7550

Ellen Morgan

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.