Dr. Debra Schultz is Acting Director of the Gender and Transitional Justice Program and co-director of a research project on "Memory and Justice: Confronting Past Atrocity and Human Rights Abuse” within ICTJ’s Memory, Museums, and Monuments Program.

Prior to this position, Dr. Schultz served for 10 years as Director of Programs for the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations) Women’s Program, where she worked with women’s movements in transitional contexts around the world. She is a founding board member of the OSI Women's Program.

A social change historian, Dr. Schultz is the author of "Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement" (New York University Press, 2001). She is currently working on an oral-history based book examining intersections of racial, ethnic, national, and gender identities in the lives of European Roma women. The former Assistant Director of the National Council for Research on Women, she has taught history and women's studies at the New School, Rutgers University, and Laguardia Community College.