About Gwendolyn Beetham

Author with Tonni Ann Brodber of the column, Global Exchange, appearing the last Wednesday of every month.

Gwendolyn Beetham is a free-lance researcher and MPhil/PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where her project on gender and international development seeks to bridge her long-time love of activism and academic research. Gwendolyn is a co-founder of the REAL hot 100, a US-based project that aims to change the perception of younger women in the media, and a founding member of the Younger Women’s Task Force. She is a contributing author to The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, Oxfam’s Gender & Development Journal, and Barnard’s Scholar & Feminist Online and has spoken on women’s rights at conferences in the United States, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. She has worked as a researcher for the National Council for Research on Women in New York City, UN-INSTRAW in the Dominican Republic, and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations at UN Headquarters. Gwendolyn lives in Brooklyn, New York.