Ellen chesler biography

Biographical/Historical Note

Ellen Chesler is currently a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute where she focuses on women's rights and reproductive health in the United States and abroad.

She earned her A.B. magna cum laude in History from Vassar College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.

Trained as an historian, Chesler has spent the majority of her professional life in government, philanthropy and think-tanks and is widely respected for the practical and intellectual perspectives she brings to gender and public policy.

Chesler served as Chief of Staff for New York City Council President Carol Bellamy from Beginning in , Chesler researched and wrote the landmark text, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, published in From , Chesler was a Senior Fellow at the Twentieth Century Fund where she developed and edited books and papers and managed programs on public policy.

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