Minky Worden
Minky Worden is an American human rights advocate and author, and serves as director of global initiatives for Human Rights Watch.[1]
Worden joined Human Rights Watch in 1998.[2] Before that, she lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.[2]
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 It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective (New Press, 2005).[3]
A native of Tennessee, Worden is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.[citation needed] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors.[2] She speaks Cantonese and German.[2]
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.[4]
