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Norma Ramos is a longstanding public interest attorney and social justice activist. She is an eco-feminist who links the worldwide inequality and destruction of women to the destruction of the environment. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), which is the world’s first organization to fight against human trafficking internationally, now in its twenty-fourth year. She writes and speaks extensively about the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls as a core global injustice, and has appeared on the television shows Charlie Rose and Larry King Live, as well as national radio programs.
Ms. Ramos is an early environmental justice activist who worked to build an environmental movement that addresses inequalities based on race, gender and class. She is the former executive director of the Rainforest Foundation and serves on the board of the National Hispanic Environmental Council and on the board of the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation.
Ms. Ramos is the recipient of the Women’s Committee Award and the Flor De Maga Award, both from the Puerto Rican Bar Association. In 2009, she was awarded the Humanist Heroine Award by the American Humanist Association. Recognized as a pioneer Latina lawyer who has made outstanding contributions to the Latino community, Ms. Ramos was recently awarded the Hispanic National Bar Association Commission on Latinas in the Legal Profession Annual Award 2010.
