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About Anne Hoiberg<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Anne Hoiberg <\/strong>served for 25 years as a research psychologist for the federal government; her curriculum vitae includes two books and 130 scientific articles, book chapters, reports, and presentations at national and international conferences. She held the position of president of the Women\u2019s Museum of California from 2010 through 2015 and from 2019 to 2021. She currently serves as the President of the International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego, Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, La Jolla Pen Women, and Co-President of the American Association of University Women (San Diego branch) as well as Chairwoman of the Nile Sisters Development Initiative and Secretary of the Peace Resource Center. She is a past president of the League of Women Voters, United Nations Association of San Diego, and National Women\u2019s Political Caucus. She volunteered through the U.S. Department of State to serve as an election supervisor in emerging countries (eight missions).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Someone San Diego Should Know!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By ANN L. HILL FEB. 21, 2020, San Diego Union-Tribune<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her mission is advancement of women\u2019s issues<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Anne Hoiberg Women\u2019s Center at the Women\u2019s Museum of California at Liberty Station is named for the current president of the museum, whose journey as an activist has inspired many across the globe. During her 25 years as a research psychologist at the Naval Health Research Center in Point Loma, Hoiberg presented more than 100 papers at scientific conferences, wrote two books, and became a certified instructor on the prevention of sexual harassment. In 1980, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) asked her to organize a week-long \u201cWomen and the World of Work\u201d symposium for scientists in Lisbon, Portugal. In response to the information presented, all participants pledged to do something locally and<\/em> globally to advance women. Hoiberg had found her mission. In the mid-90s, she retired as head of the Health Services Research Department, and looked forward \u201cto focusing on what I was really interested in women\u2019s issues.\u201d She became a member of the National Women\u2019s Political Caucus, a nonpartisan organization for passage of the ERA, federally sponsored childcare, and pro-choice women candidates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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She proudly recalls 1992, \u201cThe Year of the Woman,\u201d when she was president of the caucus. \u201cAll of our San Diego representatives were women that year \u2014 the mayor, school board president, assemblywomen, congresswomen and senators \u2014 Golding, Weber, Kehoe, Alpert, Killea, Schenk, Boxer and Feinstein \u2014 everyone but the president of the United States.\u201d
To advance her global goals for women, she turned to the United Nations. In 1946, the U.N. had created the Commission on the Status of Women to promote gender equality and empower women. It also established the U.N. Association of San Diego (UNA-SD) at the U.N. Building in Balboa Park. Hoiberg served as president of the UNA-SD for three years, continuously encouraging women all over the world to run for public office.In 1995, she organized an 18-member San Diego Delegation for the U.N.\u2019s \u201cFourth World Conference on Women\u201d in Beijing. She presented a workshop on \u201cWomen and Political Participation,\u201d and three others presented a workshop about ending domestic violence and caring for victims. After the conference they worked with San Diego City Attorney Casey Gwinn to create the San Diego Family Justice Center in 2002.\u201cThis is a one-stop location for women, men and children who are the victims of family violence and sex trafficking that offers all necessary services, including an assessment of a victim\u2019s risk of being murdered and their need for shelter,\u201d Hoiberg said. There are now more than 100 Family Justice Centers across the United States, as well as in 20 other countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For 24 years, she has been part of a San Diego delegation at the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women. \u201cTwo years ago, the head of Iceland\u2019s Department of Women\u2019s Affairs attended, and she also visited the Family Justice Centers in each of the five boroughs of New York City. When she announced that Iceland would soon be opening its first center, I enjoyed telling her that this idea started in San Diego.\u201dAnother San Diego idea was the \u201cWomen\u2019s History Reclamation Project,\u201d created in 1983 by Mary Maschal, who ran the gift shop at UNA-SD. She collected historic memorabilia, and felt that too little was known about the history of women. In 1995, her expanding collection was moved from her home to a museum storefront in Golden Hill, and Anne Hoiberg joined her board. While Anne was president in 2011, the museum was renamed the Women\u2019s Museum of California and moved to its current location at Liberty Station, where it educates the community about the experiences and contributions of women, past and present.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Anne Hoiberg Women\u2019s Center at the Women\u2019s Museum of California offers a speakers bureau, walking tours, a Girl Scout badge program, and many informative events. In 2015, Hoiberg developed an exhibit about refugee women, \u201cto understand how they survived fleeing, how their children fared, how you leave your home, family, and livelihood.\u201d She obtained a grant from the California Endowment for the Humanities, part of which was for her new book, Tears of War: Stories of Refugee Women<\/em>, that features \u201cthirty-seven of the most wonderful women \u2013- resilient, strong, brilliant.\u201dShe is serving as president of the Women\u2019s Museum of California again this year as it presents a new permanent exhibit, \u201cMarching Toward Empowerment,\u201d in honor of the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote. She invites all to join her on Aug. 26, \u201cWomen\u2019s Equality Day,\u201d for the 15th<\/sup> annual Suffrage Parade at Balboa Park. Her ongoing belief that by improving the status of women in society, we improve all of society, is central to the many additional causes that benefit from Anne\u2019s leadership. Forty years after the NATO conference in Lisbon, Hoiberg continues to fulfill her pledge \u2014 and then some.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

About this feature<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ann L. Hill is a member of the U-T Community Advisory Board. People San Diego Should Know is a weekly column about local people who are interesting and noteworthy because of their experiences, achievements, creativity or credentials. If you know of someone you believe San Diego should know, please send your idea to advisoryboard@sduniontribune.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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