Our Mission
Through academic research, education, and advocacy, the Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security upholds justice, equity, and rigor in reporting on a world in crisis.
Using a feminist lens, we deliver cutting-edge journalistic education for newsrooms and students, create curriculum, multi-lingual ethics tools for reporters on-the-go, and contribute gender-informed analysis of international peace and security, helping human rights defenders, journalists, students, and policymakers create lasting change.
The Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security is run by the Institute for Women's Leadership and Rutgers Global.
Please get in touch with feedback, information or for more details on how to join our network: cathy.otten@rutgers.edu
Team
Director
Cathy Otten is a writer and author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). Cathy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers Global, Visiting Global Associate at the Institute for Women's Leadership and a Senior Lecturer in journalism at the University of Bolton. The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” She is a former reporter for the Independent and has written for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, BBC, Politico, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Vogue, American Scholar, and more. In 2018, she won the One World Media New Voice Award and was a finalist for the Kurt Schork courage in journalism award.
Global Advisory Group
Our advisory group includes lawyers, journalists, editors, scholars, activists, and communications experts from the US, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
Partner Organizations
THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER