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Lisa Alter ’78

Lisa Alter ’78 and her daughter, Jordana Alter Confino, the co-founders of Girls Learn International, are National Organization for Women’s 2007 Susan B. Anthony honorees. This award is given to a grassroots activist “who has advanced the cause of women’s rights or improved the lives of women.” A government major while at Wesleyan, Alter received her JD from New York University and, with her daughter, founded GLI in 2004 as a nonprofit service-learning initiative involving American students in the international effort for girls’ education. Chapters in U.S. middle and high schools are paired with partner classrooms in communities in which girls have traditionally been discouraged from pursuing education, and they undertake a variety of educational, communication, advocacy, and outreach projects. (See girlslearninternational.org.)
Lisa Alter ’78 and her daughter, Jordana Alter Confino, the co-founders of Girls Learn International, are National Organization for Women’s 2007 Susan B. Anthony honorees. This award is given to a grassroots activist “who has advanced the cause of women’s rights or improved the lives of women.” A government major while at Wesleyan, Alter received her JD from New York University and, with her daughter, founded GLI in 2004 as a nonprofit service-learning initiative involving American students in the international effort for girls’ education. Chapters in U.S. middle and high schools are paired with partner classrooms in communities in which girls have traditionally been discouraged from pursuing education, and they undertake a variety of educational, communication, advocacy, and outreach projects. (See girlslearninternational.org.)