07 Oct Happy Birthday Blog: Jody Williams
Jody Williams
Born: October 9, 1950
Rutland, Vermont, USA
Known For: Noble Peace Prize Winner for work to ban landmines
We’re back with our latest HBD Ladies blog and we’re celebrating Nobel Laureate Jody Williams. Jody is an American political activist. She’s known for her work banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights, and her work on contemporary security. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for her work banning anti-personnel landmines. Let’s learn more about her with this Time Magazine video!
You can learn more about Jody and her work with the Nobel Women’s Initiative here.