Women and Families in Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Transnational Lessons from Asia & Latin America

Sung Sohn is a former bilingual classroom and resource teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). In 1994, she founded SFUSD’s first and only Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program. In 2017, she co-founded the Education for Social Justice Foundation (ESJF), a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) NGO, where she serves as executive director. Since 2023, ESJF has held special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. ​Sung also serves as the director of feminist foreign policy at the US Women’s Caucus. ​Over her career, she has published Korean Two-Way Immersion Curriculum Guide (1994), “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Teacher Resource Guide (2018), and “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Student Resource Guide (2018).   

Cathi Choi (she/her) is the Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of activists mobilizing to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure feminist leadership in peacebuilding. She co-coordinates the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, launched in 2019 to organize communities in calling for demilitarization and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. She obtained a JD from Harvard Law School. Previously, she worked at a civil rights law firm in Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy In Focus, In These Times, Journal of Policy History, the Asian Pacific American Law Journal, Yes! Magazine, The Hill, and The National Interest.

Renée Coppock is a partner at Crowley Fleck PLLP, where she has worked since 1987. She earned her JD from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, graduating with Order of the Coif honors and Summa Cum Laude distinction. Renee has written and published articles and delivered seminars on topics including indigenous women’s rights, water law, environmental law, and conservation easements. Her leadership roles include serving as a director on the Boards for Zonta International and the Zonta Foundation for Women, as well as chairing the Zonta International Bylaws and Resolutions Committee. Additionally, Renee has been a trustee for Montana State University Billings and a director for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Yellowstone County. She currently serves as the Membership Director for the US Women’s Caucus.

Han Mimi is a vice president of World YWCA, an executive board member of the National YWCA of Korea, vice chairperson of international affairs of the National Council of Churches in Korea, and an NGO advisor of “Action with Women and Peace” (A Peace ODA to the Survivors from SGBV in Armed Conflict Areas Abroad) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Republic of Korea. Mimi is a board member of the Women Migrants Human Rights Center of Korea. The YWCA is a member of the Korean Women’s Movement for Peace.

Dr. Marie Berry is the Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School at the University of Denver. She is also the co-founder and convener of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI), an effort to elevate and amplify the work that women activists are doing at the grassroots to advance peace, justice, and human rights across the world. Her award-winning book, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Cambridge University Press 2018), examined the impact of mass violence on women’s political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia. Together with Dr. Milli Lake (LSE), she runs the Women’s Rights After War Project. Dr. Berry’s work has been published in places like the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Gender & Society, Democratization, Signs, New Political Economy, Mobilization, Politics & Gender, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The Monkey Cage, and Political Violence @ A Glance. She is a 2021 recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.