Lee Cokorinos
Lee
Cokorinos is Executive Director of the Capacity Development
Group, a consulting group committed to advancing progressive
change by assisting nongovernmental organizations in strategic
planning and organizational development. He was research
director at the Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS)
in New York, where he coordinated the strategic research
programs in law, reproductive rights, and religion. He
is the author of the recent landmark study of right wing
organizations that have waged a legal and political campaign
against affirmative action and other social justice initiatives,
The Assault on Diversity: An Organized Challenge to Racial
and Gender Justice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Mr.
Cokorinos also edited and contributed to the IDS investigative
newsletter, IDS Insights, is the author of the IDS report
"Antifeminist Organizations: Institutionalizing the
Backlash," and co-authored reports on "The Federalist
Society and the Challenge to a Democratic Jurisprudence";
"Priests for Life: A New Era in Antiabortion Activism";
"The American Life League Enters Mexico: Recruiting
Anti-Choice Activists for U.S. Right-wing Goals";
and "The Global Assault on Reproductive Rights: A
Crucial Turning Point," prepared for the 2000 Beijing
+ 5 United Nations conference. A former research consultant
with the Public Policy Institute of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Cokorinos has also published path-breaking
research on the Promise Keepers evangelical men's movement,
and edited PK Watch for the Nation Institute's Center
for Democracy Studies. He received his M.Phil. in Political
Science from the Columbia University Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences and was a lecturer in international
political economy at Fordham University. He also directed
the Southern African Literature Society in Botswana for
several years, an NGO devoted to closing the "book
gap" in southern Africa by bringing high quality
social science and fiction literature into the subcontinent;
and has conducted extensive research on southern African
politics and social movements.
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