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Christine Ahn is a peace activist and foreign policy analyst for Korea. Christine is also known for being the founder, international coordinator and executive director of Women Cross De-Militarized Zone. Women Cross DMZ is a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean war, reunite families and ensure women's leadership in peace building. Christine is also co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute, Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island , National Campaign to End the Korean War, and Korea Peace Network.

Early Life and Work
Since 2014, Christine Ahn has helped leverage over $3 million from over 1,000 donations for Korea peace and women’s leadership in peacebuilding. In 2015, she led 30 international women peacemakers from 15 countries 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 where they discussed the impact of the unresolved war on women’s lives. This historic act was to demand an end to the Korean War by replacing the 1953 Armistice agreement with a permanent peace treaty, the reunification of separated families and include more of women's involvement in the process of peacebuilding. The walk was located in Pyonyang and the streets of Kaesong and along the fence of Paju. The peace walk ​had international support​, including endorsements from U.S. President Jimmy Carter, authors Alice Walker and Naomi Klein, Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama , actor Robert Redford, and physician Deepak Chopra.

The 2015 30 Delegates that were involved in this amazing walk were Gloria Steinem (Honorary Co-Chair), Leymah Gbowee (Honorary Co-Chair), Mairead Maguire (Honorary Co-Chair), Christine Ahn (Executive Director), Kozue Akibayashi (Committee Member), Janis Alton (Delegate), Media Benjamin (Delegate), Deann Borshay Liem (Delegate), Aiyoung Choi (Board President), Hyun-Kyung Chung (Delegate), Jean Chung (Delegate), Gay Dillingham (Delegate), Abigail Disney (Delegate), Ewa Eriksson Fortier (Committee Member), Jodie Evans (Delegate), Patricia Guerrero (Delegate), Erika Guevara Rosas (Delegate), Meri Joyce (Delegate), Jane Jin Kaisen (Delegate), Suzy Kim (Delegate), Vana Kim Hansen (Delegate), Gwyn Kirk (Delegate), M. Brinton Lykes (Delegate), Liza Maza (Delegate), Netsai Mushonga (Delegate), Lisa Linda Natividad (Delegate), Hye-Jung Park (Committee Member), Ann Patterson (Delegate), Suzuyo Takazato (Delegate), and Ann Wright (Sec retary).

Accomplishments
Christine Ahn has spoken at major national and international conferences such as at the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Ploughshares Fund, World Beyond War, the United Nations, U.S. Congress, and ROK National Human Rights Commission, and she has organized peace and humanitarian aid delegations to both North and South Korea and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She has delivered keynotes at major universities, including Stanford University, Harvard University, Wellesley College, Scripps College, and the University of California (Berkeley, Irvine, Davis, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara), University of Michigan and University of Toronto.

Christine has been awarded the Twink Frey Visiting Social Justice Activist by the University of Michigan, the Rising Peacemaker Award by the Agape Foundation, Social Justice Leader Award by the Wallace and Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Progressive Women’s Voices Award by the Women’s Media Center. She has received numerous fellowships, including the Kellogg and Ford Foundations. Christine has a Master’s in International Policy from Georgetown University and a certificate in Ecological Horticulture from University of California, Santa Cruz.