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  • Amnesty International USA Honors Pashtana Durrani
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    Amnesty International USA Honors Pashtana Durrani

    November 2025

    WCW International Scholar-in-Residence Pashtana Durrani, M.Ed., has been honored with the Ginetta Sagan Award, which recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.

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  • Leading Scholars and Practitioners Unite to Harness Mothers’ Soft Power for Peace
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    Leading Scholars and Practitioners Unite to Harness Mothers’ Soft Power for Peace

    October 2025

    On October 3-5, 2025, 120 leading scholars and practitioners came together for the colloquium "Mothers Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers' Soft Power in Peace Building," convened by Senior International Scholar-in-Residence Hauwa Ibrahim, J.D., S.J.D., M.L.

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  • From Healing and Truth to Research and Action: A Conversation with Kate Price About Her New Memoir
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    From Healing and Truth to Research and Action: A Conversation with Kate Price About Her New Memoir

    September 2025

    On September 18, 2025, WCW celebrated the release of This Happened to Me: A Reckoning by Associate Research Scientist Kate Price, Ph.D. Price was joined in conversation by WCW Senior Scholar Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.

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  • NIOST’s Georgia Hall Advises Carnegie Foundation on R&D Agenda to Transform the American High School
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    NIOST’s Georgia Hall Advises Carnegie Foundation on R&D Agenda to Transform the American High School

    August 2025

    Senior Research Scientist Georgia Hall, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), served for two years on the expert workgroup for the R&D agenda, representing the out-of-school time community.

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  • WCW Contributes to Health Advisory on AI and Adolescent Wellbeing
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    WCW Contributes to Health Advisory on AI and Adolescent Wellbeing

    June 2025

    Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, contributed to the American Psychological Association's health advisory calling for guardrails and education to protect adolescent AI users.

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Linda Williams, Ph.D.

October 30, 2017

Linda Williams, Ph.D., offered a written testimony for a public hearing on domestic violence as a public health issue hosted by the Joint Committee on Public Health and Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators.

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