Marceline White is the incoming President of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID). She brings more than seventeen years of experience in management, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing. She is an expert in the fields of international trade, gender and development, labor rights, environmental justice, non-profit management, and youth engagement.

Prior to joining AID, she served as the Deputy Director of the Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project funded by USAID’s Office of Women and Development, where she was responsible for all aspects of budget, staff, and project management. During her time with GATE, she developed and led training to integrate gender into the USAID/Bangladesh and USAID/Peru Economic Growth programs. She was the lead author of “Pro-Poor Growth, Gender, and Markets,” a report which was disseminated to incoming Peruvian government officials. And she provided comments on USAID’s Economic Strategy, which led to incorporation of gender considerations in the final government strategy.

Marceline came to the GATE project from the Women’s EDGE, where she served as Director of the Global Trade Program. She developed Women’s EDGE programs and positions on global trade issues and represented the organization to policymakers, funders, and the media. She developed the Look FIRST Campaign and a research agenda for the Trade Impact Review, which led to media coverage in Dow Jones, the Washington Post, CNN, and other media. She was behind the first amendment on gender and trade introduced in the Senate as part of the Fast-Track debate in 2002. She also designed the President’s InterAgency Council strategy and advocacy on gender and trade, which led to the first U.S. guidance to federal departments on integrating gender considerations into all economic policies in 2001.

Marceline’s other leadership experiences include serving as Board President for the Fair Trade Federation; as Director of the International Population Campaign at the Sierra Club; as a Development Associate at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research; as the Vice-President for Development for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador; and as Environmental Organizer with MASSPIRG.

Marceline has presented on her work to Congress, at foreign embassies, and before conferences from Mexico to Bangladesh . She has also contributed to numerous books and journals. She received her Masters from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and her Bachelors of Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is also a published poet and visual artist.

Selected Publications:

“Trade Agreements and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Agenda for Analysis and Advocacy” in Grown, Caren, Elissa Braunstein, and Anju Malhotra (eds) Trading Women’s Health and Rights? Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies: Zed Books: New York and London: 2006

“Look FIRST: Engendering Trade and Development” Gender and Development, Vol. 12, Number 2, Oxfam: Great Britain: July 2004

“ ‘Engendering‘ development-centered, rights-based, equitable trade policy” in Pickering, Sharon and Caroline Lambert Global Issues: Women and Justice: University of Sydney; Sydney: 2004

“The GATS Agreement: Doing a Disservice to Women?” Foreign Policy in Focus January 2001