Mary M. Luke

Board Chair
PowHerNY

Luke is a member of the UN Women USA Board of Directors and President Emeritus, Senior Advisor to UN Women USA NY board. She is Vice President of PowHerNY, a coalition promoting gender and racial justice in New York State; Co-chair of NYC4CEDAW Act; Advisor to Women of Color (WOC) in Fundraising and Philanthropy; member of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), Asian Women Giving Circle. She was a member of the Consultation Day, and Women of Distinction committees for the NGO-CSW64 in 2019.

In her career spanning 35 years, Luke was a global leader in women’s reproductive healthcare and advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment. She held executive leadership positions in the US and globally at four major non-government organizations, designing women’s healthcare and development programs in 20 countries in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. She also led delegations of women leaders to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt and the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing,China.