Nancy Langer
Director of External Relations
Nancy A. F. Langer has worked on four continents for humanitarian causes and now serves as the Stimson Center’s Director of External Relations. At Stimson Langer oversees both development and communications programs, with an eye to broadening Stimson’s support and policy reach. As Director of Development for USA for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2002 – 2007, Langer launched the AID DARFUR campaign, involving Meryl Streep, Tony Bennett, and bestselling author Khaled Hosseini. In the 1990s, Langer focused on women‘s health and rights projects with the United States Agency for International Development in Romania and Egypt and with the United Nations Population Fund in the Philippines and Outer Mongolia. In the 1980s, Langer served on the senior staff of Planned Parenthood of New York City and was Associate Director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund during the early years of the AIDS crisis.
Langer has been interviewed in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other outlets. Her work on getting people with AIDS access to insurance was profiled in US News and World Report. Her essays on rights and security issues have appeared in such disparate outlets as USA Today, Playboy, Ms. Magazine and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Selected Publications
"UN Disabilities Treaty Deserves Support" (Baltimore Sun, August 2, 2009)
"ICC Indictment of Sudan's al-Bashir Will Test Court's Relevancy" (August 14, 2008)
"Global Food Fight" (Baltimore Sun, April 30, 2008)
"Facing the Truth about What is Tearing Chad Apart" (Baltimore Sun, February 19, 2008)
"Aid Workers Deserve the Best Security" (Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19, 2007)
"Have Donors Learned the Real Lessons of the Tsunamis?" with David Hamburg, (Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 20, 2005)
