Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs

Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs is Associate Vice President for International Programs and Program Director for Gender at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), where she has coordinated communications and dissemination for the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) for the past twelve years. She is also Co-Chair of the IGWG’s Gender-Based Violence Task Force and a member of the IGWG Technical Advisory Group. Her primary areas of focus are gender and reproductive health, especially gender-based violence and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. Prior to joining PRB, Feldman-Jacobs worked at the International Center for Research on Women for six years, where she was a writer and editor focusing on gender and development. For over a decade, she was a reporter and editor on various newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She worked on Capitol Hill for more than 10 years, first as a legislative assistant in Foreign Affairs and then as a press secretary. Ms. Feldman-Jacobs has a BA in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in Legal Journalism from Southern Illinois University.