Amparo Elisa Guerrero, a WILPF International Vice President since 2007, has 26 years experience working with Colombian social justice and international human rights movements.  She is a social worker with a master’s degree in Gender & Development Studies from National University in Bogotá.  She has been involved with WILPF since 1995 when under Edith Ballantine’s presidency, she was asked to revive the Colombia section.  She was president, national project coordinator and board member of WILPF Colombia (1995-2003) and then International Relations Secretary and board member to International WILPF (2003-2007).  In 2007, she organized and coordinated WILPF International’s fact-finding Delegation to Colombia. Prior to WILPF Colombia, she worked with Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular’s (CINEP) Human Rights Program, in charge of education and attention to victims of human rights violations, and developed CINEP’s program for women displaced by the Colombian armed conflict. She has two beautiful daughters studying in Madrid, Spain:  Manuela, working on a doctorate on the history of theatre and Adriana, also a WILPF member, getting a Masters in Cinematic Direction.  Amparo is currently working with a WILPF working group in Mexico to establish a WILPF section in that country.

Lorraine Mirham
(United Kingdom)

lorrainewilpf(at)googlemail.com

Lorraine has been involved with WILPF since 1983 and is currently the Co Editor of WILPF's International Environment Working Group e-news which aims to pull together WILPF's unique perspectives on environmetal matters, not least the interconnections between environmental degredation and militarism. She works for the largest trade union in the UK supporting learning and development with unions in the NHS.

Nancy Ramsden (USA)
nancy.ramsden(at)wilpf.ch

Nancy is a mediator, advocate, community activist, and peace worker.  She received her BA in Psychology and Education and MA in Psychology, and then became a licensed Teacher, Social Worker and Mental Health Counselor.  After retiring from working with intellectually challenged and delinquent adolescents, Nancy became a Court Qualified Mediator and currently mediates in the courts and community as well as teaching the process of mediation to adults and to adolescents engaged in peer mediation in public schools.  Previous to changing her career to social work, Nancy was Assistant Treasurer for a large Mutual Fund Company and then spent several years raising her four sons.  

In the late 1980’s Nancy was very involved with the Beyond War movement, a National educational community movement designed to overcome the nuclear threat and create peace. She was Treasurer for New Era, financed by Beyond War, to plan and host a Writers’ Forum in the U.S.  for published authors of the U.S. and USSR.  In 1988 she traveled to the Soviet Union with Bridges for Peace to meet with the Peace Committee and citizens there.  She was also a Consultant and Workshop Leader for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and is currently a Safe Church workshop designer and trainer. She was State Coordinator of House Parties for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign.  More currently she has been involved with establishing the Peace Committee of the City of Salem, MA and facilitating discussions after monthly educational movies. She is also an incorporator and on the Board of Directors of an affordable housing organization.   

Nancy has been a member and advocate of WILPF for 5 years and is currently Co-chair of the Boston Branch.    She attended the CSW conference at the UN, the International Congress in Bolivia and was a workshop leader at the National Congress this year in Iowa.  Working towards peace has been a constant theme in her life.

Joan MacDonald
Aotearoa

Mary has a background in medical research. Her work as a clinical nurse consultant in the Department of Medicine of the University of Queensland spanned 18 years before her retirement in 1993 to care for her invalid husband. She is the proud mother of three children and five grandchildren. She was widowed in 1999.

Mary’s considers her medical background as nurse and carer was made a mockery of when wars and the use of and then stockpiling of nuclear weapons accelerated after world war two. Her activism for world peace (anti-war) and human rights extends over 45 years. She joined the Australian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1963 and has held many offices in the Queensland Branch. She was the Joint National Coordinator of WILPF from 1999 until March 2005.

Mary was involved in the launch of Security Council Resolution 1325 in Australia.
She has also been active in friendship, cultural and environmental organizations and worked in collaboration with other NGO’s in lobbying for justice, safety and security for Indigenous Australians and refugees, particularly for women and children.
Her long held activities for and intense interest in environmental issues included the founding of an environmental group to protect an extremely endangered pocket of Australian native flora and fauna near Brisbane.

Mary is presently the International Board Delegate for the Australian Section of WILPF.

Adilia Caravaca Zúñiga
adilia.caravaca(at)gmail.com 
  
Alternate: Olga Bianchi
bianchiolga(at)hotmail.com

Costa Rica

Heidi Meinzolt-Depner
Germany

Heidi Meinzolt`s profession is teaching French, Italian and physical education in a highschool.  Active since the 1970's  in international politics – for example in the executive of the European federation of green parties until 1992 – she was also the European coordinator of WILPF sections. Her main focus is on alternatives towards traditional "security" politics, through prevention of violence in all forms, the engagement for civilian conflict solutions and specific attention to the role of women in peace processes and political developments. She works on methods of global learning and conflict moderation in diverse international and North-South activities and exchanges. She is the coordinator of the WILPF Middle East committee.

Noriko served as a disarmament intern at WILPF in Geneva in 1998.  She has been a member of WILPF Japan since she came back to Japan in 1999.  She studied social change and conflict transformation at School for International Training in the U.S. and earned M.A. for International and Intercultural Management.  She is a trainer for intercultural communication and conflict transformation.

Emma Rosengren
Sweden

Emma Rosengren was born 1982 in Mariestad, Sweden. Before Emma moved to Stockholm in 2002, she worked in Switzerland, France and Ireland.
Education:
Master in International Relations (including gender studies, international law and international relations), Stockholm University
Political work:
Emma’s political work started in the environmental movement when she was 14 years old. Since then, she has worked voluntarily for different environmental and social organizations. Emma now works on disarmament with WILPF Sweden, and was elected international board member of Sweden in 2009.

Katherine Ronderos
United Kingdom, Alternate