Swanee Hunt

earnest author,Harvard lecturer,global activist,media voice,social entrepreneur,closet musician,intrepid athlete,CO rancher,doting granny,chronic tidsoptimist

[GU Women & Peace @giwps]

Today we announced that @CarlaKoppell will be @giwps’s new Managing Director. Under the leadership of @MelanneVerveer, who continues as Executive Director, Carla will manage + help steward the Institute. Read the announcement: https://t.co/2ancfcbDz8

[Boston Globe Opinion @GlobeOpinion]

When the Taliban overran Kabul and the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, the gains Afghans enjoyed for two decades devolved, write @SwaneeHunt and @MaryAkrami. https://t.co/PkaBiAwdfs

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"In Russia, maternal grief has been a particularly powerful, iconic force, tracing back to World War II...But...veneration of the mothers started to backfire during the occupation of Afghanistan....Grozny" my OPED in @USATODAY with Ambassador @SwaneeHunt https://t.co/MkUp4CoQw4

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

“In Moscow [March 2022] Svetlana Golub, at the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, has been fielding hundreds of calls. “It’s just a sea of tears,” - my article today @USATODAY with @SwaneeHunt https://t.co/QmkeXorDoa

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@harvard_w3d I look forward to getting to know you. What an important group this is. Since I arrived at HKS in '97, we've brought delegations of women leaders from Afghanistan, Russia, and Ukraine to the K-School comparing strategies to prevent and stop war.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

Paul had no reason to know that he was a guiding force in my life. The good he has spread across the world can never be rolled back. He showed me the power of hope that transforms necessity into courage. He reminded me there is no such thing as giving too much, or even enough.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

“Under the Heavens”: A Mother’s Perilous Journey from Venezuela to Brazil #thenewyorkershorts https://t.co/T9PlCmXLcn via @newyorker I ought to be watching a short like this every morning, when I prepare for my day, and every night, when I leave my work and succumb to sleep.

[Dawn Hawkins @DawnHawkins33]

One of our top objectives at @NCOSE. If there were no sex buyers, there would be no demand for prostituted and sex trafficked persons. I'm determined to flip the script and make sure solutions focus on the MEN who drive almost all of the harm.

[Boston Globe Opinion @GlobeOpinion]

Including women in conversations about Afghanistan’s future is complicated, physically risky, and culturally fraught — and it’s essential, write @SwaneeHunt and @FroghWazhma. https://t.co/FiYSUmy3ga

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

With @SamanthaJPower look what I just found in my drafts! In time to say how fortunate your kids are to have you for a mom! Mothering and mission can coexist. I'll keep nudging them to remember. @LindaT_G @AmbassadorRice Diplomats unite!

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

My daughter Lillian had groceries delivered at my doorstep yesterday. I'm I was probably the only woman in the country to burst into tears when she pulled out of a plastic bag a glass jar of huge kosher dill pickles and dark seedy mustard, my (deceased) mom's favorites.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

#MothersDay

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@WCVB A new day is dawning for women in the work force, with a Labor Secretary who understands sexual exploitation. Congratulations to us all.

[Ronald Reagan Bldg @ReaganITCDC]

"Women have an expertise that is very hard to come by and we need them"-Amb. @SwaneeHunt. Thank you @SwaneeHunt & @realSusanSloan for such an engaging conversation to kick off our Seat at the Table series. Stay tuned for full webinar on YouTube #WhereLeadersLead #DiplomacyTable

[Susan Sloan @realSusanSloan]

@baskinr @ReaganITCDC @SwaneeHunt Yesssss! More voices. More seats. Larger tables. So glad you joined the conversation!

[Susan Sloan @realSusanSloan]

@ReaganITCDC @SwaneeHunt @InclusvSecurity @DublinWTC Looking forward to moderating this series!
WOMEN👏 DIPLOMACY👏SEATS AT THE TABLE👏

Gender parity - let's go for it!
#DiplomacyTable #WhereLeadersLead

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@HillaryClinton had now been asked about voting suppression by @MariaTeresa and diplomacy by @mitchellreports. I think I've died and gone to heaven. Thanks @CFR_org for letting us listen in on three brilliantly heroic women leaders.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@HillaryClinton at @CFR_org Re. immigration: We can't keep plucking babies out of water instead of going up-stream to see who's throwing them in. Go to the root-- gangs, mercenary traffickers. We have to build up internal economic/social strength in Latin America.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@HillaryClinton is recalling the Arab Spring in Egypt. "Young people who led the Tahrir Square revolt told her, "We don't do politics." Do you really want to leave to those you overthrew the follow up to all you've accomplished? You have to step in.

[Swanee Hunt @SwaneeHunt]

@HillaryClinton is speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting. "We know that leaving women out of peace process leads to the collapse of the agreement, and further, results in a worse situation than before." What a relief, to hear such brilliance, knowledge, and values.