Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, board member of LWV-Edina and executive director of World Without Genocide, recently attended the United Nations 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a gathering of 9,000 people from around the world to address women’s economic and social equality, representation, freedom from violence, and bodily autonomy. She will speak about the link between today’s increasing de-democratization in Europe and the US and the rise in misogyny, sexual violence, women’s electoral disenfranchisement, and growing gender inequality. Action and engagement through LWV-MN and LWV-US will be highlighted. (View event flyer)

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Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of World Without Genocide, a human rights organization located in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kennedy has received significant recognition for her human rights work, including the Outstanding Citizen Award from The Anne Frank Center, New York; Distinguished Alumni Award from Northern Michigan University; Prominent Minnesotan from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Minnesota; the Liberty Bell Award from the Ramsey County Bar Association; the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award; and the Changemaker Award from Minnesota Women’s Press.

She is a representative to the United Nations Department of Global Communications. World Without Genocide received Special Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 2022.

Kennedy has a BA degree from the University of Michigan, two masters’ degrees from Northern Michigan University, and an MA and two PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota.