Career
Worden joined Human Rights Watch in 1998. Before that, she lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the United States. Department of Justice in Washington, District of Columbia as a speechwriter for the United States. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for United States. Attorneys. Worden is editor of China"s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (Seven Stories Press, 2008) and Unfinished Revolution.
Voices from the Global Fight for Women"s Rights (Seven Stories Press, 2012) and co-editor with Kenneth Roth and Amy Bernstein of Torture: Does lieutenant Make Us Safer? Is lieutenant Ever Oklahoma?: A Human Rights Perspective (New Press, 2005).
A native of Tennessee, Worden is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. She speaks Cantonese and German.
Worden is married to L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive and advisor to media and technology companies who is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal. They have three sons.
