THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Rhonda Copelon
September 15, 1944 – May 6, 2010
“It’s really important to love what you do and to love justice and to hate injustice and to love the rising of the women and to work for it and feel you work like hell and you feel incredible joy and there’s no better life than that.” – Rhonda Copelon, VFA Salute to Feminist Lawyers, June 2008
Attorney, educator, activist. A founding board member of the National Economic and Social Initiative, an Advisory Board member of Human Rights Watch, Women’s Rights Watch and Legal Advisor to and founder of Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice. A vice president of the center and a professor at the City University of New York School of Law at Queens College.
Photo. Rhonda Copelon late 1970s. Photo by Sharon Thompson.
More About Rhonda:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- “Looking Forward: Rhonda Copelon’s Legacy in Action and the Future of International Women’s Human Rights Law.” CUNY School of Law, 2012
- Rhonda Copelon papers, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History Repository
- Jewish Women’s Archive remembers Rhonda Copelon
- Rhonda Copelon’s remarks, Veteran Feminists of America Salute Feminist Lawyers, Harvard Club, NYC June 9, 2008
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Wikipedia page