Jane Barry Born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America on 15 September 1966.
Education
Ms Barry studied Soviet Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, United States of America before moving to California and working on Soviet-American co-operation issues as part of the emerging Citizen diplomacy movement, with organisations including the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange Program just as the "Iron Curtain" began to fall.
Career
She is an international women"s rights author and principal at Linksbridge living on Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States of America.
Jane is married and has two daughters, Juliette and Alyssa. She worked in the former Soviet Union from 1989–1994, taking part in demonstrations against the attempted August 1991 coup d"etat against Mikhail Gorbachev and in support of democracy - being one of the first foreigners to join the shield of ordinary people outside the Russian White House. In 1991, she joined Cooperative American Relief Everywhere United States of America working in Russia on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome issues and other former Soviet republics including Tajikistan and Georgia during their break-away conflicts.
In 1995, Cooperative American Relief Everywhere United States of America posted her to Rwanda to work in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
From 1995 to 1998, Barry worked in Bosnia and Liberia for Cooperative American Relief Everywhere before leaving the organisation to become an independent consultant. In her more recent career, she has worked in Côte d"Ivoire, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Kosovo, and South Africa for Save the Children United Kingdom,Help Age International, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, and the Urgent Action Fund for Women"s Human Rights.
Jane Barry"s written work has been translated into Albanian, French, Nepali, Serbo-Croat, Sinhala, Spanish and Tamil, is required reading at Fordham University Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, and has been described by Women in Black as a "homage to women activists who are engaged throughout the world: from Europe across Africa and Asia to Latin America" (Belgrade, July 2005). Since 2008, Jane Barry has worked as a principal at the Seattle office of the consulting firm Linksbridge.
Women"s rights Internet resources citing Jane Barry"s work include:
Giving voice to silent emergencies
Voices of Solidarity: International Women Activists Share their Perspective on the Katrina Disaster
Kosovar Women"s Voice
The Rory Peck Trust Free Lens
PeaceWomen
Association for Women"s Rights in Development (AWID)
United Nations Non-governmental Liaison Service
The New Humanitarians: A Review of Trends in International Humanitarian Action.