Ambas­sador Meryl Frank (ret.) is an inter­na­tion­al cham­pi­on of wom­en’s lead­er­ship, human rights, and polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion. She was select­ed as one of ​“The Fifty Most Influ­en­tial Jews in the World” by The Jerusalem Post, and was appoint­ed as the Unit­ed States Ambas­sador to the Unit­ed Nations Com­mis­sion on the Sta­tus of Women (CSW) by Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma in Feb­ru­ary 2009.