"...I located an e-mail for Beate Schilling, the ever smiling German exchange student who was part of our senior class.
I wrote hoping she would be coming to our celebration. Her husband replied that they planned to come, but Beate contracted
pancreatic cancer and passed away."
-- email to the 50th reunion committee
From Beate's CV
Dr. Hanna Beate Schoepp-Schilling was born in 1940. She studied at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Yale and holds a Ph.D. in American Studies.
Currently, she works as a Consultant on women, gender, youth and human rights issues. Until 2002, she held the following positions: Chief Representative to the Board of AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V. (American Field Service), Hamburg, Germany (1999-2002); Director of AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V., Hamburg, Germany (1992-1998); Director General for Women's Affairs at the German Federal Ministry of Family, Women and Youth (1987-1992), Bonn, Germany; Assistant Director and Executive Manager at the Aspen Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany (1977-1987); Assistant Professor for American Studies at the Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Guest Professor for American Studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A. (1972-1976). Starting in 2005 she will be teaching on gender and human rights at German and Japanese universities.
She is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin, Germany, on which she also served as Vice-Chairperson from 2001-2004.
She has been a Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) since 1989, where she held positions of Rapporteur and Vice-chair of the Committee. Since 2000, she serves as Chair of the Standing Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention. Recently, she was elected for her fifth term on the Committee.
