This is a huge loss. I had the good fortune to be one of the younger feminists who felt understood and supported by Rhonda. Through my work on international women's rights through the Soros Foundation and the International Center for Transitional Justice, I came to understood the enormous, transformative, historic contribution Rhonda made by fighting to enshrine "gender justice" in the Rome Treaty, the founding document guiding the work of the International Criminal Court. This is just one of Rhonda's many ground-breaking contributions, but it has enormous significance. Rhonda held the human rights' community's feet to the fire to ensure worldwide accountability for war crimes against women. Rhonda's strategic brilliance was in figuring out how to "operationalize" gender justice. Although she was always working, teaching, traveling, and strategizing, when you were in conversation with her, you felt she was fully present to you. Rhonda was a peer to some of my mentors and it was very inspiring to see how the feminist community rallied around her. It's hard to comprehend that such a vital force is no longer with us. As a historian of women's activism, I am encouraged by all the efforts to document Rhonda's work and to honor her amazing spirit.
This is a huge loss. I had the good fortune to be one of the younger feminists who felt understood and supported by Rhonda. Through my work on international women's rights through the Soros Foundation and the International Center for Transitional Justice, I came to understood the enormous, transformative, historic contribution Rhonda made by fighting to enshrine "gender justice" in the Rome Treaty, the founding document guiding the work of the International Criminal Court. This is just one of Rhonda's many ground-breaking contributions, but it has enormous significance. Rhonda held the human rights' community's feet to the fire to ensure worldwide accountability for war crimes against women. Rhonda's strategic brilliance was in figuring out how to "operationalize" gender justice. Although she was always working, teaching, traveling, and strategizing, when you were in conversation with her, you felt she was fully present to you. Rhonda was a peer to some of my mentors and it was very inspiring to see how the feminist community rallied around her. It's hard to comprehend that such a vital force is no longer with us. As a historian of women's activism, I am encouraged by all the efforts to document Rhonda's work and to honor her amazing spirit.