Erin Thornton
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Erin Thornton is the Executive Director for Every Mother Counts
where she is responsible for guiding policy engagement, leveraging
strategic partnerships and providing viewers with meaningful
opportunities to learn and engage on the issue. Prior to joining EMC,
Erin served as the Global Policy Director for ONE, an advocacy and
campaigning organization with more than 2 million supporters
dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable
disease. A veteran of ONE and its predecessor organization, DATA,
Erin was in on the ground floor of building both organizations. She
merged the policy operations of the two organizations, developed
flagship products including the annual DATA Report and the ONE
Award and also built the trips function. In addition, she has extensive
experience engaging on public health issues and translating them to
campaigns and also in communicating linkages to broader developmental issues.
Before ONE, Erin was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow. In that role, she worked at the
United States Export-Import Bank as a country risk analyst for sub-Saharan Africa and at the U.S.
State Department in the International Health Affairs office. Erin is a phi beta kappa graduate of Duke
University with a double major in Comparative Area Studies and History. She received her master’s
degree in International Relations from Yale University. Erin has trave

Blog Entries by Erin Thornton

Maternal Mortality Declines, But Every Mother Still Counts

(3) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 4:13 PM

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new report recently that includes the latest estimates for maternal deaths around the world. The new data reveals that progress continues and that the number of women dying due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth continues to decrease. The world, however,...

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Promises, promises...

(0) Comments | Posted June 25, 2010 | 10:14 AM

A promise is a promise.

Or is it? Is it really a promise if it's not legally binding? Or if not everyone really meant it?

It's hard to know, and advocates would argue that when it comes to promises made to the world's poorest people, it doesn't matter...

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Nine Women On a Trip With ONE to Ghana and Sierra Leone

(0) Comments | Posted January 18, 2010 | 8:10 AM

Six days, nine women, one mission: to gain a deeper understanding of the development challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa, through the gender lens.

We've led lots of trips to Africa but this one is special both personally and professionally. This time I'm surrounded by an amazing group of women all committing...

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Clinton Sees Smart Power in Smart Development

(11) Comments | Posted January 14, 2009 | 11:22 AM

In her highly-anticipated confirmation hearings to be selected as the next Secretary of State yesterday, Senator Hillary Clinton articulated a bold and comprehensive vision of U.S. foreign policy for the Obama Administration. Perhaps none of her ambitions were more striking than the breadth and depth of her commitments to development...

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