Women you haven’t heard of but should know: Jody Williams
29 March 2007The next on the list of women you haven’t heard of, but should know about is Jody Williams. Jody is an American teacher who saw a problem, & worked to fix it. She helped to spearhead the Ottawa Treaty in 1997, which is an international treaty banning antipersonnel land mines. She accomplished this through the use of a fax machine. From Wikipedia, I got the quote
"Imagine trying to get hundreds of organizations – each one independent and working on many, many issues – to feel that each is a critical element of the development of a new movement. I wanted each to feel that what they had to say about campaign planning, thinking, programs, actions was important. So, instead of sending letters, I’d send everyone faxes. People got in the habit of faxing back. This served two purposes – people would really have to think about what they were committing to doing before writing it down, and we have a permanent, written record of almost everything in the development of the campaign from day one."
In 1997 Jody was named as one of Forbes most 100 powerful women. She also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.
