Gara LaMarche
Senior Advisor, Raben; Leader-in-Residence, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of New York; Co-Chair, Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice
Gara LaMarche is Senior Advisor at Raben, Leader-in-Residence at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York, and Co-Chair of Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice. He has spent his 40-year career in leadership positions in human rights and social justice organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Democracy Alliance, where he served as President from 2013 to 2021. He also chairs The New Press and serves on boards including the Fund for Global Human Rights, Open Society Policy Center, StoryCorps, and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights.
“All across the spectrum from mainstream magazine covers to high-end cocktail bars to porn videos, women are objectified and commoditized. This will change primarily through the empowerment of women and girls—through their insistence on a different world—but it won’t change fast enough, or thoroughly enough, until more and more men renounce the dominant culture—and do it visibly.”