The Board of NuclearBan.US is very happy to announce the appointment of Asha Asokan as the new Director of NuclearBan.US. Asha holds a Bachelor’s in Law (LLB) from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law (LLM) from CUSAT, India. She worked for Nonviolent Peaceforce, implementing civilian protection and peacebuilding projects in South Sudan, and went on to work for the United Nations in South Sudan and then in New York.
In 2018, Asha received a Rotary Peace Fellowship to do a second Master’s Degree in International Development Policy at Duke University in North Carolina. She became active in the nuclear weapons issue through the Rotary Action Group for Peace, and from there joined the Board of Directors of Rotary E-Club for World Peace. Asha also co-chairs a Working Group on Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking with Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS).
“Total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only option we have to prevent nuclear catastrophe,” says newly appointed NuclearBan.US Director Asha Asokan.
