Vicky Markham, Founding Director, Center for Environment and Population (CEP), has over 25 years’ experience in the field of population/women/reproductive health and environment/sustainable development science, policy, advocacy and public outreach. She has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences with honors from Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1983) where she was a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellow, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Humanities with honors from the University of Maryland (1976).
April 17, 2013 / Vicky Markham
My recent travels have taken me from Texas to Turkey, from Ghana to India and Manhattan, real and virtual, with one thing in common - women evoking the need for empowerment as a human right.
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October 19, 2012 / Vicky Markham
The new family planning development movement must have locally-based developing nation women farmers, homemakers, water and wood collectors, tree planters and village organizers at our helm - them driving us, us listening to them.
October 18, 2012 / Vicky Markham
This Fall is proving to be a watershed moment for women’s development issues, especially on reproductive health and sustainable development.
June 21, 2012 / Vicky Markham
The Rio+20 conference is now entering its last days, final negotiations have begun, and tensions are rising as the challenge to our issues is acute.
June 20, 2012 / Vicky Markham
This morning I ventured the opposite direction from Rio Centro where the UN Rio+20 negotiations are taking place, and traveled with colleagues to the Cachoeirinha (I was told it means “waterfall”) Favela in Rio de Janeiro.