Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

June Zeitlin, Executive Director , Women's Environment and Development 
Organization 
June Zeitlin joined the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, an 
international women’s rights advocacy organization, as the Executive Director in 1999. 
WEDO advocates for women’s equality in global policy, focusing on economic and 
social justice, sustainable development and gender and governance. June has extensive 
experience as a women’s rights lawyer, social policy advocate and in intergovernmental 
relations. She worked at the Ford Foundation for over a decade as the Director of the 
Governance and Civil Society Program, Director of the Gender and Institutional Change 
Project, Deputy Director of the Rights and Social Justice Program and Program Officer 
for Women’s Rights. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Ms. Zeitlin worked for New 
York City’s Office of Management and Budget and the Human Resources Administration 
in intergovernmental relations.
She also spent time working in Washington, DC first as a legislative assistant for former 
Congresswoman and WEDO co-founder Bella Abzug. She then held positions in the US 
Department of Health, Education and Welfare serving as the director of the newly created 
Office on Domestic Violence and prior to that as a Special Assistant to the General 
Counsel of the Department. She also worked as a lawyer with the National Women’s 
Law Center in Washington, DC and earlier in her career with Bedford-Stuyvesant Legal 
Services in Brooklyn, New York. She has a JD from New York University School of 
Law and a BA from the University of Rochester. 
Youth Representatives 
Natasha P. Ghent-Rodriguez, Young Professionals for International Cooperation, 
South Florida University
Natasha Ghent-Rodriguez is from the Tampa Chapter of the United Nations Association.
On the local level, Natasha is on the board of UNA -Tampa Bay and the Vice-Chair for 
UNA's Young Professionals for International Cooperation program. She serves UNA-
USA on an international level as working contributor to the Global Young Professionals 
task force. Natasha also is 1 of 9 youth from around the world, and only American, to sit 
on WFUNA-Youth Coordinating Committee. In her non-UNA work, Natasha serves on 
the working committee for the Initiative for Global Development, a program initiative of 
Bill Gates, Sr., in Tampa. She is noted as an exceptional leader, team member, and a 

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passionate advocate for the United Nations and its health focused initiatives. Natasha is 
currently a senior at the University of South Florida majoring in Biomedical Sciences and 
Political Science in Tampa. She is drawn to health issues, especially AIDS in Sub-
Saharan Africa, and the lack of health care for women and children in developing nations. 
She hopes to travel the world on behalf of the United Nations, specifically the World 
Health Organization, to educate women in developing nations, on basic health practices 
and providing health services.