Co-Founder & CEOEvery Woman Treaty
Lisa Shannon is a women’s rights activist, human rights scholar, and award-winning author who has worked for the past 15 years to drive global policy solutions to eradicate violence against women and steer the global conversation toward extreme threats to women’s security. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC World News Tonight, the Economist, NPR, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, among others. She was a Gleitsman Leadership Fellow and a Human Rights Policy Fellow at the Carr Center, Harvard Kennedy School, where she and Every Woman Treaty Co-founders laid the groundwork for the Every Woman Treaty, a global coalition of 4000 frontline women’s rights defenders from more than 147 nations calling for an international treaty to end gender-based violence. She holds a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Georgetown University.