ICRW CELEBRATES LIFE, ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SENIOR FELLOW, SALLY YUDELMAN

 

Sally Yudelman, a distinguished women’s rights scholar and senior ICRW fellow, passed away Oct. 24 after a protracted battle with brain cancer.

Yudelman was a lifelong advocate for women’s economic advancement, and contributed significantly to human rights and international development for more than three decades. She has written and spoken widely about women's rights, the role of nongovernmental organizations, and social change in developing countries.  As a senior fellow, Yudelman served as mentor for many ICRW researchers and has been an invaluable asset to ICRW’s mission and work.

“We are deeply saddened to lose Sally,” says ICRW President Geeta Rao Gupta. “She was a dear friend, colleague and mentor. Her legacy will live on through her tireless work to uphold the rights of marginalized populations and her scholarly work to improve the lives of women in developing countries."  

For more than two decades at ICRW, Yudelman wrote extensively on issues of women and development with a focus on Latin America. She was the author of two books, Hopeful Beginnings, a study of five women’s development organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean published in 1987; and with Lucy Conger, The Paving Stones: An Evaluation of Latin American Civic Education Programs, published in 1997 by the National Endowment for Democracy.  Her many articles include a monograph in 1989 with Mayra Buvinic entitled “Women, Poverty and Progress in the Third World” for the Headline Series of the Foreign Policy Association; and “Women, Poverty and the Environment in Latin America” with Michael Paolisso. 

ICRW has honored her longtime service and expansive scholarship through the ICRW Sally Yudelman internship, designed to cultivate future international development and human rights scholars and activists.