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Vicky Markham

Title Founding Director
Organization Center for Environment and Population (CEP)

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). 

Posts By Vicky Markham

From Texas to Turkey: Messages From Women in the World

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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Grassroots: Voices, Stories of Women in the Developing World

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.

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Wanted: New Champions for Family Planning

This Fall is proving to be a watershed moment for women’s development issues, especially on reproductive health and sustainable development.

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Live from Rio+20, Day Three: “The Voices of Women”

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.

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Live from Rio+20, Day Two: "Favelas and Protests"

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.

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