Judy Lerner
Lerner was a special education teacher for over 30 years in Hastings-on Hudson School district and was president of Teacher's Union in that district for 12 years. She worked with former Congresswoman Bella Abzug for many years and headed her office during her race for the US Senate in the 1970s. As a feminist she was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the continuing Committee of the National Women's Conference and participated at all the UN Women's meetings in Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing. Her participation in peace missions and advocacy of women’s rights has taken her all over the world—most recently to a women’s conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Israel–Palestine.
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Judy Lerner has been a peace activist for over five decades. She was a founding member of Women Strike for Peace in 1961, mobilizing tens of thousands of women to get rid of nuclear testing in the atmosphere. She led a delegation to the 17th Anti Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Conference in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1971, and was very active in the anti Viet Nam war movement. She served on the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for over 20 years and currently chairs the International Committee of Peace Action at the United Nations. She also serves as a director on the NGO/DPI Executive committee at the UN.