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Allida Black

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Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Miller Center for the Study of the Presidency, University of Virginia

Full Biography

Allida Black, Ph.D., is Special Advisor and Historian to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Miller Center for the Study of the Presidency at the University of Virginia. She also advises former Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her archive and other projects. In 2019, she began a Hewlett Foundation funded case study of the bipartisan legislative negotiations to rebuild Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2020, she was invited to join Georgetown University’s US-China Study Group on Women and Society. She is recognized as an expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; has written and edited ten books as well as a variety of articles on women, politics, and human rights policy; has led workshops around the world on human rights, conflict resolution, and women and girl’s empowerment.

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