Mila Rosenthal

Focus Areas: Human Rights; Climate Justice; Campaigning, Communications, and Advocacy

Mila Rosenthal is an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and also an Assistant Professor of Human Rights in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences  

She has over 20 years of international experience as a leader, communicator, advocate and campaigner on economic and social human rights, and climate and environmental justice. She is the co-founder and Managing Director of Planet Reimagined, a nonprofit climate justice campaigning organization. She is also currently the Executive Director of the International Science Reserve at the New York Academy of Sciences, where she runs a global network of researchers to build equitable access to scientific and technological developments across borders in response to climate-linked crisis and disasters. Previously, as Director of Communications and Advocacy for the United Nations Development Programme, she spearheaded global public policy advocacy for the UN's largest agency to combat poverty, inequality, and climate change, working in 170 countries around the world.

Previously, she held executive positions at Amnesty International, HealthRight International, and Concern Worldwide. She worked extensively on public health, anti-poverty, and human development efforts in countries in Africa, and before that in Southeast Asia, where she served with the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia.

Dr Rosenthal’s PhD in social anthropology is based on two years of ethnographic research in Vietnam living and working with women factory workers in the garment industry.

Education

• PhD in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
• BA in English Literature, Columbia College, Columbia University