Lee Cokorinos is Executive Director of the Capacity Development Group, a consulting practice committed to advancing progressive change by assisting nongovernmental organizations in strategic planning and organizational development. Previously, he was research director at the Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS), where he coordinated the strategic research programs in law, reproductive rights, and religion. He is author of the recent study of right wing organizations that have waged a legal and political campaign against affirmative action and other social justice initiatives, The Assault on Diversity: An Organized Challenge to Racial and Gender Justice (2003). His other publications have focused on antifeminist organizations, the Federalist Society, attacks on reproductive freedom, and on the Promise Keepers evangelical men’s movement. He also directed the Southern African Literature Society in Botswana for several years, an NGO devoted to closing the “book gap” in southern Africa by bringing high quality social science and fiction literature into the subcontinent; and has conducted extensive research on southern African politics and social movements.
