About Me

I'm a writer and social change historian who is linking human rights and history.

Dr. Debra L. Schultz, an activist oral historian, is the author of "Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement" (New York University Press, 2001). A founding board member of the Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations Network), she served for a decade as Director of Programs for NWP. Her international interests include Roma women's rights; transitional justice; developing transnational women's studies; and promoting women's rights in post-conflict situations. Her domestic interests include civil rights historiography; multigenerational feminist dialogue; and the promotion of an intersectional human rights framework in the U.S. (I am never bored).

Her number one passion and obsession in life is thinking about "the politics of memory"--how we engage with the past in order to transcend it and create better visions for the future.

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