Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US Head of Delegation at the 67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

United States Mission to the United Nations
Office of Press and Public Diplomacy
For Immediate Release
March 3, 2023

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Representative to the United Nations, will serve as the US Head of Delegation to the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

The United States Mission to the United Nations today announced the US delegation to the 67th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to be held March 6-17, 2023 at United Nations Headquarters in New York with side events will be broadcast live.

The priority theme of CSW67 is “Innovation and technological change and education in the digital age to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”.

The theme of the review is “Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls”.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield will serve as head of delegation and make the national statement on behalf of the United States at the March 7 General Discussion during CSW High Level Week.

Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, and Ambassador Lisa Carty, United States representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, will serve as deputy representatives.

Accompanying Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield are senior government advisers from the State Department — Katrina Fotovat, senior official at the Secretariat for Global Women’s Issues, and Rina Amiri, special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, and Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, Allison Lombardo.

The US Permanent Delegation is also working closely with a number of US government experts to advance this year’s priority theme.

These officials are also accompanied by three non-governmental advisers:

• dr Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director of the Cyber ​​Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting online abuse and discrimination. She is an expert in First Amendment law, criminal law, and law and technology. In 2013, she drafted the first US model criminal statute on non-consensual pornography.
• Luna Abadía, a sophomore studying Human Rights Policy at Duke University, is the founder of the Effective Climate Action Project, a youth-led environmental organization with a mission to promote effective and systemic solutions to climate change. She is a gender and climate justice advocate and a member of Plan International USA’s Youth Advisory Board.
• Sonia Jorge, Founder and Executive Director of the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership, a coalition of public, private and civil society organizations working to bring internet connectivity to the global majority.