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Sharon Roling MCW Director of Special Projects Sharon Roling is the Director of Special Projects, heading up the organization’s strategic communications work and development initiatives and facilitating planning processes. Sharon is also involved with MCW’s genocide prevention program, MCW Jacqueline's Human Rights Corner.
Sharon received her masters in international security policy and conflict resolution from Columbia University. During her studies, she prepared an on-line database on conflict prevention for Columbia’s Center for International Conflict Resolution; worked as an associate on a post 9/11 US-transatlantic relations study with the Council on National Emerging Security Affairs (CENSA); and interned as an international analyst with Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Sharon received her undergraduate degree in history at the University of British Columbia.
Before joining MCW, Sharon was the lead press officer for the Global Conference on Conflict Prevention at the United Nations, where she managed a team of international journalists, co-edited a daily conference newsletter and co-ran the website, peoplebuilidngpeace.org. From 1996-2002, Sharon worked at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) in Tel Aviv. As a project director, she specialized in cross-border cooperation programs among Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians and Egyptians, and served as strategic planner, grant writer, project developer, and facilitator among politicians, security officials, NGO’s and the international donor community. She was also the chief researcher and writer on Oslo back-channel-initiator Professor Yair Hirschfeld’s historical account of the peace process.
Sharon has worked as a writer, editor and researcher in the non-profit, policy and international development fields. She wrote for the Jerusalem Post and South’s Africa’s Mail & Guardian, for whom she prepared a special issue on South Africa’s First International Film Festival. She has published several articles in academic journals on peace-building in the Middle East, written op-eds and articles for newspapers and journals on the travel and tourism industry in Africa, and worked as a researcher/fact-checker on a number of political manuscripts. She was also the Israel production coordinator on the award-winning documentary Trembling Before G-d, and a video editor for leading hotels and the Tourism Ministry in Israel.
She gives lectures to university- and high-school classes on social marketing, organizational development, public-private sector partnerships, and a range of global issues and has been a guest speaker on cross-border cooperation at numerous conferences. Sharon is a co-founder of Columbia’s International Security Policy Alumni Network in New York, and an advisor to a number of non profit initiatives on organizational development and strategic communications. *** |
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