Advocacy Coordinator Laurie Wen has experience in grassroots activism, international peace advocacy, and documentary filmmaking. She has been an active member of AIDS activist groups ACT UP and HealthGAP, working on domestic and international campaigns that range from pressuring the South African government to provide antiretroviral treatment, to calling for the provision of condoms in New York State prisons. She has also worked closely with the China AIDS Solidarity Network and played a key role in its two successful campaigns to demand release of two jailed Chinese AIDS activists. Ms. Wen has also worked in domestic electoral politics, directing the Akron, Ohio, office of the nation’s largest voter mobilization campaign for the 2004 presidential election. Before coming to the FXB Center, she was a program officer at the Geneva-based NGO Women Defending Peace, a global coalition of peace groups dedicated to promoting peace through the empowerment of women. As a filmmaker, Ms. Wen focuses on political documentaries. Her films have been screened in more than ten cities in the U.S. and in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as a television broadcast in New York. She has received awards and grants, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an individual artist award from the New York State Council on the Arts. She has also served as associate producer for Bill Moyers and other filmmakers. Ms. Wen received her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University.
