Bridget Kathleen Burns
Expertise
Democracy and Political ParticipationLand rights, Environment & Climate Change
Women Human Rights Defenders
Women's Rights
Details
Media
Why it matters that the diversity report card for environmental organizations doesn’t track gender The 19th News Dec 19, 2022
With a Feminist Foreign Policy, Biden Could Get Climate Change Right Foreign Policy April 21, 2021
Revisiting Bella Abzug’s Vision Post-Beijing, 25 Years Later Ms. Magazine Sept 14 2020
Bold Visions for People, Planet and Peace medium.com May 21 2020
How climate change affects women more—and why they need to be listened to Vogue Mar 9, 2020
A Caring Climate Post-COVID iFokus pp 20-21 NR. 1/2020
Feminist Solidarity for a collective response to COVID The World At 1°C May 2020
The Power of Women’s Leadership in Times of Crisis You Tube link Big Tent Ideas Festival panel Dec 7 2020
Bridget Kathleen Burns (@bridiekatie) is Director of WEDO, Women’s Environment and Development Organization. She is a gender equality and climate justice expert. She specializes in policy advocacy, research and movement building at the intersection of gender equality, women’s rights and environment/climate justice.
She has been particularly focused on integrating gender equality into the decisions and outcomes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Bridget serves as the co-focal point of the Women and Gender Constituency, a UNFCCC stakeholder group of civil society organizations which support the political participation of women’s rights advocates in climate convention processes.
Prior to WEDO, Bridget worked at LEAD International, coordinating a global network of environmental leaders and conducting leadership training. She holds a Masters from the London School of Economics in Gender, Development and Globalization, with a focus on eco-feminism, strategic essentialism and its deployment in literature and policy. Through this work and study, Bridget has also worked on a wide variety of development issues in several countries: renewable energy infrastructure in Beijing, global health issues in Tunisia, disaster risk and resilience in Bangkok, and women’s economic development in Costa Rica. She is currently engaged in a wide variety of local and international climate justice groups.
She was among Apolitical’s list of 100 most influential people in gender policy in 2020.