Radhika Balakrishnan is faculty director at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, which incorporates feminist values to strengthen and bridge voices for human rights toward social justice and self-determination, and a professor of women’s and gender studies. She is commissioner of the Commission for Gender Equity for the City of New York and a member of the Global Advisory Council for the United Nations Population Fund, and she was co-chair of the Civil Society Advisory Committee for the United Nations Development Program.