Women, Peace, and Security: USG Agency Implementation
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In 2022, the White House released the second annual Women, Peace, and Security Congressional Report, which tracks implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 across the United States Government, including the Departments of State, Defense,
Homeland Security and USAID. This training session will provide a deep dive into the USG’s strategy to expand Women, Peace, and Security across agency programs and its progress on implementation.
Kilo Alpha Strategies (https://www.kiloalphastrategies.com/) will walk ISOA members through identifying and capturing WPS opportunities, including proposal development and gender assessments. The
event will also feature Ms. Renata Parras, former Deputy Chief Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security and ESG attorney with Paul Hastings, and WPS advocate. Ms. Parras brings hands-on experience to the inner working of WPS and how businesses
can work to maximize WPS in their programs.
Prior to the training, it is recommended that participants read:
U.S. Women, Peace, and Security Congressional Report 2021
U.S. Women, Peace, and Security Congressional Report 2022
This training is available for no charge to both ISOA members and non-members. Virtual attendance during the session will count as a training credit towards ISOA’s WPS Certification Program.
The webinar will be recorded and posted publicly on the ISOA website for future viewing.
Learn more about ISOA’s WPS Certification Program here.
To join the ISOA WPS Committee, please email us at [email protected] with your name, job title and company.
The webinar will be recorded and posted publicly on the ISOA website for future viewing.
Sponsored by
Speaker
Ambassador Kelley E. Currie
Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
Throughout her career in foreign policy, Ambassador Kelley E. Currie has specialized in human rights, political reform, Women Peace and Security, development, and humanitarian issues, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Ambassador Currie is currently
an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington D.C. think tank, and a Senior Advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. She is a member of the board of directors of the National
Endowment for Democracy; the board of governors of the East-West Center; and the advisory boards of Spirit of America and the Vandenberg Coalition.
Ambassador Currie was unanimously confirmed in December 2019 as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and the U.S. Representative at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and served in that position until January 2021. Prior to
that appointment, she served under Ambassador Nikki Haley as the U.S. Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternative Representative to the UN General Assembly (2017-2018). While awaiting confirmation between ambassadorial
appointments, she was appointed interim senior official in the Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice. From 2009 until her appointment to the USUN leadership, she was a Senior Fellow with the Project 2049 Institute and
the founding Director of the Institute’s Burma Transition Initiative. Ambassador Currie also held senior policy positions with the U.S. Congress, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
Ambassador Currie received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on International Human Rights Law, and an undergraduate degree cum laude in Political Science from the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International
Affairs.
Speaker
Amy K. Mitchell
Former Senior Advisor for Global Women’s Issues at State
Amy K. Mitchell brings together more than twenty years of national security, diplomacy, international relations, and strategic communications experience across government, media and the non-profit sector.
Ms. Mitchell most recently served as a member of the Senior Executive Service at the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of State. As Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, she advised the Secretary on public diplomacy,
advanced the Department’s critical mission by forging international partnerships, and oversaw all high-level engagements and events. She was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal for her service, the Department’s highest honor. As
the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the State Department, she advised the Department’s senior leadership on strategic diplomatic initiatives, including the implementation of the U.S. Women, Peace,
and Security agenda and women’s economic empowerment, specifically in the Indo-Pacific region. She represented the office in interagency policy processes and bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagements, and drove implementation of key
policy decisions on China, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and other priority contexts.
During the George W. Bush administration, Ms. Mitchell was the director of special projects at the Department of Defense and the deputy director of communications of the U.S.-hosted 2004 G8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia. She has also held senior communications
positions outside government, including Vice President of Communications for National Review; Director of Communications for the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; Vice President of Public Affairs at the United Service Organizations
(USO); and Managing Editor of The American Spectator.
Amy K. Mitchell and his wife Kendra have three children. They reside on a family farm in Croom, Maryland.
Ms. Mitchell is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at New Lines Institute, focused on human rights; a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Foreign Policy Study Group; a strategic consultant to military and veterans service organizations;
and is on the board of Eagle Online Academy, which implements educational programs for Afghan women and girls. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Speaker
Renata Parras
Renata Parras is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Counsel at Paul Hastings and is based in the Firm’s New York office. She is responsible for managing, coordinating, and advancing the Firm’s ESG strategy, including global pro bono initiatives
and other social impact initiatives. Her practice focuses on immigration, human rights, and human trafficking law as well as supporting social enterprises and social impact initiatives throughout the world. Prior to joining Paul Hastings,
Ms. Parras was a Deputy Chief Counsel with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she led teams of attorneys in immigration, human rights, and national security litigation. She also coordinated high-profile investigations and interfaced
with international agencies on cross-border matters. Prior to becoming a Deputy Chief Counsel, Ms. Parras served as an Assistant Chief Counsel in DHS’s Chicago and New York offices where she gained valuable expertise in the intersection of
criminal and immigration law as well as juvenile detention issues. She began her career with DHS in Washington D.C. with the Human Rights Litigation Division. Mrs. Parras earned her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in
2009, and her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2004, majoring in philosophical religious thought. She is fluent in Spanish.