Amee Wurzburg.
Amee Warzburg is a trainer, researcher, practitioner, and capacity-building specialist with 15 years of experience advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, preventing and responding to gender-based violence, and promoting health equity. She has worked both in the United States and globally, with a focus on addressing the root causes of inequalities and translating research and evidence into programs, strategies, and resources.
Throughout her career, Amee has designed and facilitated trainings, implemented programs, led research and evaluation, and helped organizations apply best and promising practices to their work. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Gendered Violence Portfolio at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University, where she leads projects focused on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, the manosphere, and online misogyny. Previously, she served as a Gender Advisor at USAID, supporting teams across sub-Saharan Africa in integrating gender equality and gender-based violence prevention and response into HIV/AIDS programming.
Her experience also includes leading the Youth Health and Well-Being portfolio at Peace Corps Headquarters, running a bystander intervention program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for three years, and supporting 28 school districts across the United States on youth sexual health education.
Amee’s areas of expertise include gender-based violence prevention and response, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality, engaging men and boys, LGBTQI+ rights, meaningful youth engagement, trauma-informed approaches, and social and behavior change. She is particularly passionate about bridging research and practice by synthesizing complex information and supporting practitioners in strengthening their programs by applying the most up-to-date evidence. Amee holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in History from Barnard College of Columbia University.