Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe is President of the
Center for Women Policy Studies, a national non profit, multiethnic and
multicultural feminist policy research and advocacy organization
founded in 1972. The Center brings women’s human rights constructs to a
range of policy issues and works closely with a national network of
women state legislators in all 50 states.
Before joining the Center, Dr. Wolfe served as: Director of the Women’s
Educational Equity Act Program in the U.S. Department of Education;
Director of the Project on Equal Education Rights; Deputy Director of
the Women’s Rights Program at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and
Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Education in the
former Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Dr. Wolfe currently serves on the Board of Directors of Women’s Policy,
Inc. and has served on many other boards, including the U.S. Committee
for UNIFEM, the National Council for Research on Women, the Montgomery
County, MD Commission on Women, Montgomery Community College, and the
Policy Advisory Board of the Disability Rights Education and Defense
Fund; she also has served as chair of the National Coalition for Women
and Girls in Education.
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