Julie Leftwich, JD, MA

Founder & Principal, VoiceAction Strategies

Supporting Women's Voices in  Peacebuilding and Human Rights

Julie Leftwich is an international human rights and women, peace and security expert with extensive experience in implementing rights-based approaches to support peacebuilding efforts. She is a proven thought leader who has worked in, created and led organizations globally and advised, trained and published on many aspects of human rights and women, peace and security.  Julie provides expertise to international peacebuilding, human rights, justice and security organizations. 

About Julie

Professional Experience

Julie has worked with women and organizations around the world advancing human rights, rule of law, and peace and provided expertise across sectors including the civil society, government, justice, security, private, and academic sectors.  

Thought Leadership

Julie’s work uplifts the voices of women and organizations working to build peace and advances better/rights-based solutions to today’s global challenges. She provides thought leadership through publications, podcasts, and media.

Consulting and advisory services

Julie provides strategic consulting and advisory services to international peacebuilding, human rights, and women, peace and security organizations.

In the News

Julie is featured in news stories, interviews, and events.

Lasting Peace

Lasting Peace

Local, national, regional and global peace is attainable and is inextricably linked with the advancement of women, who are a fundamental force for leadership, conflict resolution and the promotion of lasting peace at all levels.

– Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995

Rewrite the Rules

Rewrite the Rules

Around the world, women have been reshaping societies and rewriting the rules, resulting in changes in laws and policies, increased participation in public life, and changes in the perception of gender roles.

Courage

Courage

International Human Rights Law is enforced not just by nation-states, not just government officials, not just by world historical figures, but by people like us, people with the courage and commitment to bring international human rights law home.

-Harold Koh

Human Rights

Human Rights

The question of human rights is so fundamentally important that there should be no difference of views about it. We all have common human needs and concerns.

-The Dalai Lama