We're developing and nurturing the ecosystem for thriving global feminist leadership.
About IGLI
Since 2016, the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI) has advanced research, education, and programs aimed at strengthening the work of feminist activists fighting for democracy, peace, and human rights around the world.
Through our convenings, cross-sector collaborations, research, and community programs, we equip activists, students, academics, policymakers, and the broader public to tackle the interconnected crises of our time.
Convenings - Learning, building networks, and strategic connections.
Education + Training - Building global movements for peace and democracy.
Research - Connecting movements and scholarship.
Our Flagship Projects
Women’s Rights After War Project
The IGLI Activist Institute
Each year, we bring together 15-20 women and gender non-conforming activists and feminist scholars for a week of connecting, learning, and building solidarity. The WRAW Research Project takes a critical look at post-conflict women's empowerment initiatives through a systematic comparative examination of post-conflict gender reforms.
What the World Will Become Podcast
WWWB is a podcast about the humans who dedicate their lives to building a more free and just world. Enjoy two seasons of discussions with frontline activists around the world. Theory of Change
Guiding Understandings
Our current systems prioritize militarized security, extraction and capital at the expense of the collective wellbeing of people and planet.
These same systems will never produce solutions for a more peaceful, secure, just and sustainable world.
Feminism is a strategic lens through which we can observe systems of harm and violence, make connections and imagine alternative futures.
Global feminist movements and activists are already imagining, experimenting with and fighting for alternate realities.
Meet the Team
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Dr Marie Berry is a Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver and an expert on gender, violence, and social movements. She is the former director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and current Director of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI). Her award-winning book, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Cambridge University Press 2018), examined the impact of mass violence on women’s political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia. Together with Dr. Milli Lake (LSE), she runs the Women’s Rights After War Project. Her writing and research has been published in places like the Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Convergence Magazine, Gender & Society, Signs, New Political Economy, and more. She is a 2021 recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a 2025 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest award given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.
Marie.berry@du.edu
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Carly Paul is a feminist program manager and researcher with seven years of experience working at the intersection of gender justice, international development, and human rights advocacy. Her background includes working alongside grassroots organizations as a USAID Global Health Fellow, consulting with USAID implementors, and supporting gender advocacy and programs at CARE and MADRE. As a Sie Fellow she received her M.A. in International Studies from the Korbel School for Global and Public Affairs with focuses on gender and environmental justice, peacebuilding, and global trauma studies. She currently serves as the Program Manager at the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative, where she has co-authored feminist policy writing and planned feminist convening spaces focused on transnational and cross sector collaboration and activist care. She also works as a florist and people's acupuncturist, providing free auricular acupuncture in her community. She is committed to building a world where people live in right relationship with our more-than-human kin.
Carly.Paul@du.edu