• About Me

    I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Politics and International Relations at Monash University and Program Manager for the Women and Democratic Change Initiative, which brings together activist-scholars from challenging and conflict-afflicted countries to better understand women's leadership and participation in social movements. My doctoral research focuses on militarization and violence against women in Mexico's so-called "war on drugs" from a feminist political economy perspective.

     

    I have twelve years of experience informing and advancing progressive policies and social justice issues at the global and local levels, including drug policy reform in Mexico, racial justice and police accountability in the United States, and WPS and feminist foreign policy at the multilateral level. Before embarking on my PhD journey, I worked with diverse government and non-governmental organizations, such as Mexico's Permanent Mission to the UN, the Mexican Senate, the New York City government, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) and Data Cívica. As a graduate student, I also worked as a Research Assistant at the Harvard-based think tank, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), in Cambridge, Massachusets and Kathmandu, Nepal.

     

    From 2017 to 2019, I completed a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University as a recipient of the Fulbright-Garcia Robles scholarship. I specialized in Economics and Political Development, focusing on feminist political theory, criminal justice, and advanced econometrics. As co-chair of the HKS Gender Policy Union, I collaborated with local organizations and led several advocacy initiatives on sexual and reproductive rights and menstrual health. After graduating from Harvard, I received a grant from the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard to participate in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the UN General Assembly. At the time, I also worked as a political and technical adviser to the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN on gender equality and women's human rights.

     

    My Ph.D. is fully funded by the Monash International Tuition Scholarship and Monash Graduate Scholarship. I am the recipient of several other scholarships and awards, including the Women in International Security 2021 Next Generation Fellowship, the 2017-2019 Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship, the 2019 Harvard Women and Public Policy Program Oval Summer Fellowship, the 2018 Harvard Dubin Center for Public Leadership Summer Fellowship, the 2017 - 2019 Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) Scholarship, the 2017 P.E.O. International Scholarship, the 2018 Harvard in Mexico Foundation Scholarship, and the 2015 Centro de Estudios Alonso Lujambio national essay award. I hold two Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and International Relations with a special mention from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

  • Work Samples

    Articles, policy briefs, podcasts and more

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    Putting Gender at the Center of the United States-Mexico War on Drugs

    Daniela Philipson García, Gender Security Project, November 2024

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    What Comes Next for Mexico's First Elected 'Presidenta'?

    Daniela Philipson, E-International Relations, June 2024

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    The War At Home

    Things That Go Boom Podcast, April 15, 2024

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    Mexico’s Feminist Foreign Policy: In Search of Accountability and Participation

    Daniela Philipson, Global Observatory, October 19, 2023

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    ¿Qué tienen que ver la crisis climática, la militarización y el feminismo?

    Daniela Philipson, Nexos,

    September 12, 2023

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    BBC Woman's Hour

    Guest speaker (minute 33),

    September 13, 2023

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    Feminist Interventions: Resisting the Militarization of the Climate Crisis

    Daniela Philipson, Women's Environment and Development Organization and Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, June 2023

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    Militares y Masculinidades

    Daniela Philipson, Nexos, March 2023

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    Feminist Foreign Policy: Why is it feminist?

    Daniela Philipson, Gendering IR Podcast, December 2022

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    La Política Exterior Feminista de México: Una Evaluación Breve

    Daniela Philipson, Ana Laura Velasco y Dinorah Arceta, Internacional Feminista, September 2022

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    SheTalks Series: Política Exterior Feminista

    US-Mexico Foundation, October 2022

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    Mexico's Feminist Foreign Policy: In Name Only

    Daniela Philipson, Venro, August 2022

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    Las violencias de las políticas prohibicionistas y punitivistas

    Daniela Philipson y Samantha Pérez Dávila, Nexos, July 2022

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    Feminist Foreign Policy: A Bridge Between the Global and Local

    Daniela Philipson and Ana Velasco, Yale Journal of International Affairs, April 2022

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    Mexico: Successes and Lessons Learned from Implementing FFP & WPS in the Global South

    SCRAP Weapons & SOAS Webinar on Feminist Leadership in Disarmament, April 2022

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    Daniela Philipson, The World Today, February/March 2022 edition

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    The WPS Agenda in Mexico

    Harvard Kennedy School Women's Network & Women in Defense, Diplomacy and Development Webinar, February 2022

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    Opinion | How can the US & Mexico cooperate to reduce violence vs women

    Daniela Philipson García, Mexico Today, January 2022

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    Practicing Feminist Foreign Policy in the Everyday

    WILPF Germany Webinar, November 2021

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    "Mi experiencia puede servir para que otras no tengan miedo"

    Data Civica, Alianza Pacifica and USAID,

    August 2021

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    Mexico's First WPS NAP: An Assessment

    Daniela Philipson and Ana Velasco, WIIS, June 2021

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    Los retos de la Agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad en México: un plan de acción superficial e incompleto II

    Ana Velasco and Daniela Philipson García, Animal Político, February 2021

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    Los retos de la Agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad en México: un plan de acción nacional e incompleto I

    Ana Velasco and Daniela Philipson García, Animal Político, February 2021

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    ¿Es viable el "Defund the Police" en México?

    Daniela Philipson García and Julio Salazar, Nexos, November 2020

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    ¿Quién supervisa a la policía? II de II

    Daniel Hernández Aldaco and Daniela Philipson García, Nexos, June 2020

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    ¿Quién supervisa a la policía?

    Daniel Hernández Aldaco and Daniela Philipson García, Nexos, June 2020

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    Democracy in Mexico Needs a Law Enforcement Oversight Body

    Daniel H. Aldaco and Daniela Philipson García, Kennedy School Review (print edition), April 2020

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    Mexico: Champion of Women or Detractor?

    Daniela Philipson García, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, April 2020

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    México necesita un Plan de Acción en materia de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad

    Daniela Philipson, Animal Político, April 2020

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    Daniela Philipson García, Animal Político, March 2020.

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    Pink Glitter: A New Form of Civil Disobedience

    Daniela Philipson García, Kennedy School Review, September 2019

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    In Humanitarian Crises, Periods are a Public Health Issue

    Ira Guha and Daniela Philipson García, Kennedy School Review, July 2019

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     A Roadmap for the Advancement of Municipal Police in Mexico

    Daniela Philipson García, Master's Thesis, April 2019

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    Local Police Forces in Mexico are Poor

    Daniela Philipson García, Kennedy School Review, March 2019

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    Mexico Achieved Gender Parity: Does it Matter?

    Daniela Philipson García, Kennedy School Review, September 2018

  • Blog

    I was born in Mexico City but have lived in the United States for almost half my life. As a child, I lived in Florida, Indiana, and New Jersey. As an adult, I lived in Massachusetts and New York. When I was 11, I received a green card because of my father’s job. Ten years later, when I was 21 I...
    In his 2014 State of the Union address, then President Barack Obama declared: “Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment.”[i] Although the 77 cents statistic varies significantly...
  • Education 

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    Monash University

    Ph.D. Candidate in Politics and International Relations (2022 - 2026)

    Dissertation: Gender-based violence and militarization in Mexico

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    Harvard Kennedy School

    Master's in Public Policy

    Concentration in Political and Economic Development

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    Fulbright García-Robles

    Scholarship Recipient

    2017-2019 Scholar

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    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

    Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations

    Special recognition

  • Reach Out

    You can also find me on Twitter at @daniphilipson