Muna B. Ndulo, professor of law at Cornell Law School and director of Cornell's Institute for African Development, is now serving as board chair of Gender Links (GL), a nongovernmental organization dedicated to promoting gender equity in southern Africa. Ndulo has been a long-standing member of the GL board.

"I am working with an organization that has had a marked impact in the region, particularly in the gender and media field," said Ndulo, a former dean of the faculty of law at the University of Zambia and legal adviser to the U.N. Observer Mission to South Africa. "The challenges are numerous."

Gender Links, which was launched in 2001, is committed to creating a southern region where women and men can participate equally in all aspects of public and private life without fear of retaliation. The organization works to raise awareness of the underrepresentation of women in the media as well as the portrayal of women in a narrow range of roles, primarily as victims of violence or as sex objects. For more information, see http://www.genderlinks.org.za.