Diana Duarte

Diana Duarte

Diana Duarte is the Chief Strategy Officer for Advocacy and Policy at MADRE, an international human rights organization and a feminist fund. She leads MADRE’s international advocacy strategy to propel gender justice and human rights in national, regional and global rights and governance spaces, together with partners across the world. She also directs MADRE’s Feminist Policy Jumpstart program, which collaborates with global grassroots feminist partners to shape US policymaking spaces, with a particular focus on anti-militarist peacebuilding and just climate policy. 

She is a founding organizer of the Feminist Peace Initiative, a joint effort to mobilize domestic constituencies of anti-war feminists to democratize and demilitarize US foreign policy. Her writing has explored how feminism can transform US foreign policy, the dangers of a militarized climate and energy policy, just US policy towards Afghanistan, the impact of US sanctions, and more. She serves as a co-lead of Funders for Demilitarization, a funder organizing project and pooled fund that seeks to increase philanthropic resources for work to confront US militarism.