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July 29, 2004
MMC Trustee Named Executive Director for The WCRWC
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 (New York, NY) The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children has selected Marymount Manhattan College Trustee Carolyn Makinson as the organization's new executive director. Makinson, who is currently executive director of Massachusetts Institute for Technology's Center for International Studies, will assume her new role this September.
Dr. Makinson joined MIT in the fall of 2002, after working as a program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, responsible for grant making in population and refugee studies. She is a demographer by training, has lived and worked in Egypt and a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and has published on various topics related to reproductive health and adult and child mortality in developing countries. She earned the B.Sc. in Sociology at the London School of Economics and the Ph.D. in Sociology at Princeton, where she specialized in demography and Near Eastern studies. She has taught at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, is a member of the roundtable on the demography of forced migration of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and was recently a member of an ad hoc committee established to advise the Dean of the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Makinson has been a member of the MMC Board of Trustees since 1998 and serves as Assistant Secretary and member of the Academic Affairs and Compensation Committees of the Board.
The Women's Commission is an advocacy organization that works to improve the lives and protect the rights of refugee women and children worldwide. It is an independent affiliate of the International Rescue Committee and was founded in 1989. More on Dr. Makinson's new role can be found on their website: www.womenscommission.org.
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