Minky Worden

Who is Minky Worden?

Minky Worden is an American human rights advocate and author who is Director of Global Initiatives for Human Rights Watch.

Worden joined Human Rights Watch in 1998. Before that, she lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.

Worden is editor of China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges and Unfinished Revolution; Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights and co-editor with Kenneth Roth and Amy Bernstein of Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective.

A native of Tennessee, Worden is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors. She speaks Cantonese and German.

Worden is married to L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive and advisor to media and technology companies who is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal; they have three sons.