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Born July 30, 1969, Westchester County, NY; married; children: two.
EDUCATION:Harvard College, BA; Harvard Law School, JD (magna cum laude).
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Writer, political scientist, and lawyer. U.S. Mission to the United Nations, New York, NY, deputy to the Ambassador for U.N. Management and Reform, New York, NY, 1999-2001; Bertelsmann Media, New York, NY, vice-president of U.S. business development, 2001–05; Wall Street Journal, New York, NY, vice-president of strategy and operations, 2005–07; Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Washington, DC, deputy assistant secretary of state, 2009; Amnesty International USA, New York, NY, executive director, 2012-13; Pen America, New York, NY,, 2013–, named CEO. Other positions include U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, law clerk; McKinsey and Company, associate in consumer and media practice; Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, chief operating officer; Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, senior State Department positions; senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Council on Foreign Relations; and Children’s Rights, New York, NY, Skadden fellow. Also founder of the blog Democracy Arsenal, 2005; Tides Foundation, Board of Trustees, 2013.
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Kauffman Fellowship, 1997, for showing exceptional promise for a career in public interest law; Special Award for the Use of Diplomacy, the United Nations Association of the national Capital Area, 2014.
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Author of op-eds, including for the New York Times and the Washington Post. Author of column for Foreign Policy magazine. Also author of blog entries and scholarly articles for periodicals, including Foreign Affairs, Dissent, and Democracy.
SIDELIGHTS
Suzanne Nossel is the daughter of South African parents, whose own parents fled to South Africa from Nazi German. Nossel’s interest in human rights stems from growing up Jewish and from visits she made when she was young to South Africa during apartheid. Her accomplishments in connection with human rights include playing a major part in U.S. efforts at the United Nations Human Rights Council, where she helped establish human rights resolutions focusing on several countries, including Iran, Syria, and Libya. She also helped form resolutions concerning the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Her advocacy for the preventive use of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and other places has drawn criticisms from the group Code Pink and journalist and peace activist Chris Hedges, who resigned from PEN America when Nossel was app0inted the organization’s CEO.
In addition to writing for blogs, periodicals, and journals, Nossel is coauthor with Elizabeth Westfall of Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think about Their Firms. The book features an anonymous survey of 1,225 women attorneys working in prestigious law firms and focuses on how these women saw their treatment within the firms. “The purpose of this report is to disseminate this information to law students making employment decisions,” wrote Mary Whaley in Booklist.
Dare to Speak
In her book titled Dare to Speak: Defending Fee Speech for All, Nossel discusses the importance of protecting free speech, even when the speech presents morally questionable viewpoints. Nossel does not support government bans on offensive speech but instead writes about the need for an informal type of self-governance, including respectful opposition. She points to talk show host Bill Maher and President Barack Obama as people who have defended free speech even when it applies to people with whom they have strong disagreements. Nossel addresses issues concerning the protection of free speech and how companies such as Google and Facebook have failed to support free speech when they fail to moderate content properly. For example, she describes how they suppress some social media users in a way that the users are not aware that their posts are not being seen.
Nossel includes some guidelines to help people be able to speak what they believe in a modern digital world and highly divided society, all the while not trying to curb the free expression of others in the process. For example, she advises readers on how to use language conscientiously but without censoring oneself while defending the rights of others to express unpopular views. “Apt and inapt arguments commingle in a passionate defense of free speech,” wrote a Kirkus Reviews contributor. A reviewer writing for Publishers Weekly remarked: “Readers will find this clearheaded account to be a helpful guide to navigating today’s partisan extremism.”
BIOCRIT
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Booklist, January 1, 1998, Mary Whaley, review of Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think about Their Law Firms, p. 755.
Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2020, review of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.
Publishers Weekly, February 24, 2020, review of Dare to Speak, p. 57.
Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, the foremost organization working to protect and advance human rights, free expression and literature. She has also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA; and held senior State Department positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Nossel frequently writes op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications, as well as a regular column for Foreign Policy magazine. She lives in New York City.
Suzanne Nossel
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Suzanne Nossel
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Born July 30, 1969 (age 50)
Westchester County, New York, U.S.
Education Harvard University (BA, JD)
Suzanne F. Nossel is the executive director of PEN American Center,[1] the largest of the 144 centers that form a loose federation that comprise PEN International. Her career has spanned government service and leadership roles in the corporate and non-profit sectors.
Previously, she served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, from January 2, 2012 to January 11, 2013.[2] Her work there led to the successful passage of the Afghan Women and Girls Security and Promotion Act of 2012,[3] and drew attention to the case of imprisoned punk band Pussy Riot.[citation needed]
Contents
1 Background
2 Awards and recognition
3 Publications
4 Personal life
5 References
6 External links
7 Other
Background
Prior to her tenure at Amnesty International, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs in 2009, where she was responsible for multilateral human rights, humanitarian affairs, women's issues, public diplomacy, press, and congressional relations. At the State Department, Nossel played a leading role in U.S. engagement at the U.N. Human Rights Council, including the initiation of groundbreaking human rights resolutions on Iran, Syria, Libya, Côte d'Ivoire, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and the first U.N. resolution on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons.[4]
From 1999 to 2001 she served as Deputy to the Ambassador for U.N. Management and Reform at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations [5] under Richard C. Holbrooke, where she was the lead U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly negotiating a deal to settle the U.S. arrears to the world body.[citation needed]
She is also a former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Human Rights Watch and a former Vice President of Strategy and Operations for the Wall Street Journal from 2005–07.
She has served as a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was also a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has worked to curb political violence in South Africa, and has monitored elections and documented human rights in Bosnia and Kosovo.
In the private sector, she worked as vice-president of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann Media (2001–05) and earlier in her career, was an associate in consumer and media practice at McKinsey and Company.
In 2013, Nossel joined Tides Foundation's Board of Trustees.
In 2015, Nossel moderated a discussion on the Fear of Art hosted by the New School.[6]
Awards and recognition
In 1997 Suzanne Nossel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship for showing exceptional promise for a career in public interest law. Shortly thereafter she began to work as a Skadden Fellow at Children's Rights, a public interest advocacy organization in New York City.[7]
In 2001, Nossel received Radcliffe's Jane Rainie Opel '50 Young Alumna Award for an alumna in the 10th reunion class who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of women, to her profession, or to the Institute [8]
In December 2014, Nossel was honored the Special Award for the Use of Diplomacy by the United Nations Association of the national Capital Area [9]
Publications
Suzanne has written hundreds of blog entries, op-ed pieces and scholarly articles on international human rights for a number of publications, including Foreign Affairs,[10] the Council on Foreign Relations' publication dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas, and Foreign Policy,[11] dedicated to global politics and economics. In Foreign Affairs, she has covered topics ranging from the changing nature of liberal internationalism to Samantha Power's ambassadorship in the United Nations.[10] In Foreign Policy magazine she has written on LGBT rights in Nigeria,[12] human rights in Iran,[13] the eroding of press freedom in Hong Kong,[14] a list of things president Obama can do to leave a legacy that measures up to the promises he made,[15] a cautious evaluation of future hardship in the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba,[16] the backsliding of progress on media freedom in Myanmar,[17] the future of activism in the internet age,[18] and a trend of international mega-sporting events like the Olympics held by authoritarian regimes.[19] Nossel co-wrote, along with PEN President Andrew Solomon, an op-ed piece for The New York Times on PEN's decision to present the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Free Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo.[20] She has also been interviewed in publications including the Washington Post],[21] and progressive blogs such as the Mantle.[22]
As part of the PEN World Voices International Festival of Literature in 2014, she participated in a debate entitled "Who Owns the Mind?" with former NSA General Counsel Robert Deitz and ACLU Attorney Ben Wizner.[23]
In 2013, she moderated a panel at Fordham University's conference on NSA surveillance, organized by PEN American Center and the ACLU, entitled "NSA Surveillance: What's the Harm?".[24]
In March 2005, she founded the blog Democracy Arsenal, where she has written posts on topics including development, human rights, Iraq, Darfur, progressive strategy, proliferation, and the UN. Other frequent contributors to the blog include Rosa Brooks, Michael Cohen, Anita Sharma, and Shadi Hamid.[25]
Together with Joseph Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Clinton Administration and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Nossel has been credited with coining the term "Smart Power" in which she proposed a policy of liberal internationalism, outlining the concept of the U.S. using military power as well as other forms of "soft power".[26]
Citing her stated positions on the use of military force in what prominent peace activists view as illegal and unjust U.S. aggression, and her position on the government's treatment of U.S. dissidents, protests from these activists[27] have followed Nossel since her appointment and tenure at Amnesty International and upon her selection to head PEN.[28] Organizers from the feminist peace group Code Pink formed a campaign asking Amnesty's board for Nossel's resignation due to Nossel's support of the war in Afghanistan.[29]
Journalist and peace activist Chris Hedges resigned from PEN in protest of Nossel's appointment. Hedges claimed in his resignation letter to PEN that "Nossel's relentless championing of preemptive war—which under international law is illegal—as a State Department official along with her callous disregard for Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians and her refusal as a government official to denounce the use of torture and use of extrajudicial killings, makes her utterly unfit to lead any human rights organization, especially one that has global concerns." [30]
Personal life
Nossel was born in Westchester, New York, the daughter of South African parents and granddaughter of refugees from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa during the 1930s.[31] She traces her interest in human rights to her growing up Jewish in America, and her visits to apartheid South Africa in her youth.[31] She has frequently visited relatives in Israel, saying "It's a place where I feel very comfortable and at home."[31]
She is currently married and lives with her husband and two children in Manhattan.[citation needed]
SUZANNE NOSSEL
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Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne Nossel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression organization. Since joining in 2013, she has doubled the organization’s staff, budget, and membership, spearheaded the unification with PEN Center USA in Los Angeles and the establishment of a Washington, D.C. office, and overseen groundbreaking work on free expression in Hong Kong and China, Myanmar, Eurasia, and the United States. She is a leading voice on free expression issues in the United States and globally, writing and being interviewed frequently for national and international media outlets. Her prior career spanned government service and leadership roles in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. During the first term of the Obama Administration, Nossel served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, where she led U.S. engagement in the United Nations and multilateral institutions, on human rights and humanitarian issues. During the Clinton Administration, Nossel was Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador for UN Management and Reform at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where she was the lead negotiator in settling U.S. arrears to the world body. During her corporate career, Nossel served as Vice President of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann and as Vice President for Strategy and Operations for the Wall Street Journal. Nossel coined the term “Smart Power,” which was the title of a 2004 article she published in Foreign Affairs Magazine and later became the theme of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure in office. Nossel is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and dozens of other outlets, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Democracy, and other journals. Nossel serves on the Board of Directors of the Tides Foundation. She is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Nossel is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, the foremost organization working to protect and advance human rights, free expression and literature. She has also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA; and held senior State Department positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Nossel frequently writes op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications, as well as a regular column for Foreign Policy magazine. She lives in New York City.
Nossel, Suzanne DARE TO SPEAK Dey Street/HarperCollins (NonFiction None) $28.99 5, 5 ISBN: 978-0-06-296603-2
The CEO of PEN America suggests how to protect free speech in a digital age.
As Nossel notes in her debut book, Herbert Marcuse argued that “creating a broadly tolerant society demands intolerance of certain ideas, including right-wing ideologies.” With far-right extremism on the rise, his view is making a comeback, writes the author, and she rebuts it in a defense of free speech that alternately hits the mark and wanders far afield from First Amendment issues, dealing instead with cultural insensitivity or noninclusive language. In much of the first half, Nossel serves up unedifying bromides on how to respond to “unintended offenses” such as stereotyping millennials as “snowflakes” or “asking a fellow party guest if she’s pregnant when she isn’t.” The narrative gains traction when the author addresses urgent questions such as how to protect free speech while responding effectively to harmful material like online revenge porn, terrorist recruitment, and deepfake videos. Nossel, who has also served as the COO of Human Rights Watch, shows in chilling detail how tech companies are failing to moderate content appropriately. Google and Facebook, for example, “demote problematic posts, limiting how often they are seen without excising them entirely,” or “shadow ban” them by “suppressing social media users so that, unbeknownst to them, their posts and content cannot be seen by others.” The social media giants must become more transparent, argues Nossel, partly by notifying users promptly if they face sanctions. Throughout the book, the author argues persuasively that “informal self-governance” protects free speech better than corporate or government restrictions, but after reading her accounts of abuses by Silicon Valley behemoths, few readers are likely to disagree with one of her conclusions: “Mandated transparency is one area where government regulation of online content may be a positive step and would not entail intrusions on content in violation of the First Amendment.”
Apt and inapt arguments commingle in a passionate defense of free speech.
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Suzanne Nossel. Dey Street, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-296603-2
Nossel, CEO of PEN America, debuts with a reasoned, well-sourced argument for protecting free speech, even in cases where it's morally reprehensible. She contends that "informal self-governance" is preferable to enacting bans on offensive speech, and laments "the decoupling of speech from considerations of intent and context." To combat hate speech, Nossel advocates respectful "counterspeech" rather than furious tirades or "speech-suppressive strategies." She notes that free speech as a political issue has gone from a liberal priority to a conservative crusade in recent years, and provides data suggesting that millennials are more in favor of censoring speech in order to protect minorities than previous generations. To help counter this "troubling tendency," Nossel commends progressive talk show host Bill Maher and President Barack Obama for defending the speech rights of those with whom they disagree. She criticizes the influence of "call-out" culture and offers guidelines on how to tell the difference between real and pseudo apologies. Some of Nossel's suggestions for defusing offensive speech seem overly optimistic, but her ardent defense of this constitutional right is based persuasively on personal experience and straightforward evidence. Readers will find this clearheaded account to be a helpful guide to navigating today's partisan extremism. (May)
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"Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All." Publishers Weekly, vol. 267, no. 8, 24 Feb. 2020, p. 57+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A615911604/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=95489c44. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.
Nossel, Suzanne and Westfall, Elizabeth. Jan. 1998. 392p. Career, $50 (1-56414-320-1); paper, $24.99 (1-56414313-9). DDC: 340.
The authors present the results of an anonymous survey of 1,225 women attorneys working at 77 of the nation's largest and most prestigious law firms. Each firm is identified in a separate section, where comments are reported. This research reveals how the women view their treatment in these firms, and the purpose of this report is to disseminate this information to law students making employment decisions. The authors also hope it will serve as a wake-up call to firms to address women's concerns and strive to be more attractive to women professionals. Although some of the survey results, especially those on work and family issues, apply to both men and women, the authors' intent is to give women recruits an idea of what life is like for women in specific firms and hence assist in the "risk assessment" when interviewing for jobs. Looking beyond law firms, if there were similar surveys of executive women in other traditional professions, it would be interesting to compare those findings with the results reported by Nossell and Westfall.
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Whaley, Mary. "Presumed Equal: What America's Top Women Lawyers Really Think about Their Law Firms." Booklist, vol. 94, no. 9-10, 1 Jan. 1998, p. 755. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20176621/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=f6d2a0c2. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.