Prior to joining CIVIC, Sarah was a member of The White House AIDS Policy team throughout President Clinton's second term. She later joined West Wing Writers, a firm of White House speechwriters with clients like former President Clinton and Bill Gates. Sarah consulted for the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center in India, Human Rights Watch in New York, Institute for State Effectiveness in Kosovo and The William J. Clinton Foundation in Rwanda, where she managed an HIV/AIDS awareness initiative for 40 African First Ladies. Sarah received her Bachelor's degree in political theory from Georgetown and her Masters in security policy from Columbia University. Sarah is on the board of directors of InterAction, the board of principles of the Truman National Security Project and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sarah Holewinski has served as executive director of CIVIC since 2006. CIVIC advocates with warring parties around the world to help the civilians they harm in combat. She has traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Lebanon, and Israel to lobby for smarter, more compassionate policies for war victims. Sarah is a frequent commentator on armed conflict with major media outlets including CNN and BBC, and has published op-eds in the Washington Post, USA Today, International Herald Tribune, among others.
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Working Groups are a central part of the way InterAction supports and aids its members. Working Groups are first and foremost a place for member agencies to share information that is important to them in several ways:
- by providing a way for member organizations to share information about field-based issues, concerns, and topics;
- by serving as a place for members to receive training and to share best practices with each other; and
- by offering a space for members to develop new products and materials on a given topic.
Working Groups are member driven and supported by InterAction staff (with the exception of a few non-staffed working groups). Members identify an interest, issue area, or need around which they feel their collective voices will clarify or strengthen responses. Depending on the number of member organizations interested, a meeting or consultation is planned to explore the topic and allow members to share their issues and concerns. Such consultations or exploratory meetings may lead to the formation of an on-going Working Group.
InterAction's current working groups are described below. For more information on a specific working group, contact the group's staff contact.
| Group | Description | Staff Contact |
|---|---|---|
| HPPC--SYRIA |
this is a working for Syria |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Transparency |
SIT--ransparency |
Laia Grino |
| Shelter and Settlements Working Group |
InterAction Shelter And Settlements Working Group |
Mohamed Hilmi |
| Allen-test-group |
this is a test group |
Allen Abtahi |
| InterAction Business Council |
Promoting and leveraging corporate and NGO partnerships for sustainable and inclusive international development and economic growth. |
Luisa Córdoba |
| HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
Kimberly Darter |
| HPPC--Horn of Africa |
HPPC--Horn of Africa |
Lucy de los Reyes |