Christine Ahn
Christine Ahn is the Founder and Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. In 2015, she led 30 international women peacemakers across the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) from North Korea to South Korea. They walked with 10,000 Korean women on both sides of the DMZ and held women’s peace symposia in Pyongyang and Seoul.
Ahn is the International Coordinator of the Korea Peace Now! campaign, which Women Cross DMZ launched in 2019 with three feminist peace organizations: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Nobel Women’s Initiative, and Korean Women’s Movement for Peace.
Ahn also co-founded the Feminist Peace Initiative, which WCDMZ launched with MADRE and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance in 2020.
She has addressed the UN, US Congress, Canadian Parliament, and ROK National Human Rights Commission.
Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she is a regular contributor on MSNBC, Democracy Now!, and CNN.
She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2023 Certificate of Recognition from the Honolulu City and County Council for her life devotion to peace, the 2022 Social Activist Award from the Nobel Peace Laureates, the 2020 Rotary International Peace Award, and the 2020 US Peace Prize from the US Peace Memorial Foundation for her bold activism to end the Korean War, heal the wounds from the war, and women’s leadership in peacebuilding.
Ahn has a master’s degree in International Policy from Georgetown University and a certificate in ecological horticulture from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She serves on the board of Hawai`i Peace and Justice.
