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Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach

Advisory Board Member, Women Peacemakers Program

Biography

Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach is a lawyer, entrepreneur and activist. Formerly a Partner with the world's largest law firm specializing in protecting investor, consumer and human rights, she left in 2008 to commit herself fully to social activism and philanthropic work. She is a visiting lecturer at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. She is serving as a consultant to the Liberian Ministry of Gender & Development with respect to that country's proposed constitutional revisions. She is a member of the Board of the University of California Press Foundation, promoting scholarship in the area of social justice; the Advisory Board of the Women Peacemakers Program at the Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice; the Advisory Board of the San Diego Museum of Man's "Empowering Women" exhibit; and the Advisory Board for Seats at the Table, a coordinated group of international NGOs focused on gender issues in West Africa.