Letty Cottin Pogrebin - Activism

Activism

Letty Cottin Pogrebin is well known for her advocacy journalism and her activism on behalf of women’s equality, authors’ rights, peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and inter-group understanding. She is a past president of The Authors Guild, a past president of Americans for Peace Now, and a current board member of many organizations including the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, the Director’s Council of the Women in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School, and the Women and Gender Studies Program at Brandeis University, and The Authors Guild. She was a co-founder of several inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue groups, among them a Black-Jewish Dialogue group that met for a decade, and a Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue group that has been convening monthly for the last four years.

She is a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Free to Be Foundation, and the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, and several other organizations, task forces, and dialogue groups dedicated to building harmony between blacks and Jews, and between Palestinians and Jews.