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This is a free event, but registration is strongly suggested.

Guest of Honor:

Rosa Julieta Montaño Salvatierra

• Recipient, U.S. Secretary of State 2015 International Women of Courage Award (Awarded by John Kerry)
• Founder and Director, Oficina Jurídica para la Mujer (Legal Office for Women) (Bolivia)
• Jailed during dictatorship era. Fierce defender of independent civil society. Advocating for the rights of Bolivian women.
• Her NGO provides legal assistance to women in emblematic rape, sexual assault, and domestic abuse cases
• Her NGO provided services to over 30,000 women in Bolivia. Influenced nearly every piece of legislation advancing women’s rights over past 30 years.
• Her advocacy resulted in stricter rape / sexual assault penalties, greater reproductive rights protections, and enhanced gender parity laws that helped make Bolivia’s 2015-2020 Legislative Assembly one of the most gender equal in the world

Roundtable Participants:

Kelly McBride

• Executive Director, Domestic Violence Network
• Advocate, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (former)
• Program coordinator (former), Peace In Our Homes: A Call to End Domestic Violence in Central Indiana.
• Fosters community collaboration among non profit and for profits to end domestic violence in Indiana. Under her leadership, the Community Wide Plan to End Domestic Violence in Central Indiana was developed.
• Works with Indianapolis & Indianapolis Police to address domestic violence response and prevention.
• Founding member, Baker One Task Force & Chaired "Children Who Witness Violence Committee" for the Department of Public Safety’s Violent Crime Reduction Efficacy Team

Professor George E. Edwards

• The C.M. Gray Professor of Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law
• Special Assistant to the Dean for Inter-Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations
• Faculty Director (Founding), Program in International Human Rights Law
• Faculty Director, Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Observation Project) (www.GitmoObserver.com)
• Faculty Supervisor & Director, United Nations Shadow Reports on Rights of Women and Girls
• Author, LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (www.LLMRoadMap.com)

Kathleen Surina Grove

•  Director, Office for Women, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
• Associate Faculty, Women’s Studies Program of the IU School of Liberal Arts
• Teaches: “Women and the Law” & “Women’s Rights around the World.”
• J.D., Indiana University McKinney School of Law; Masters, Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis
• At IUPUI, promotes inclusive and equitable working and learning environment. Supports women in reaching full faculty, staff or student potential. Maintains key indicators to advance women.

Special thanks to Dean Andy Klein, Office of External Affairs, Faculty Assistant Kyle Galster, Mr. Perfecto Caparas, Associate Dean Karen Bravo, the International Center, and the U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Thanks to co‐hosts Program in International Human Rights Law, International Human Rights Law Society, International Law Society, and the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review.