Joan Dunlop
Joan Marie Dunlop (née Banks, May 20, 1934 - June 29, 2012) was a British women's health advocate and activist. She was the first president of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC). Early life and education Dunlop was born in London to a British father, Sir Maurice Banks, and an American mother, Anne Banks. As a young teenager, Dunlop visited the US, she then decided she wanted to live there. She applied and was accepted at Vassar College but her parents insisted that she attend the Queen's Secretarial College in London. As a young woman, she had an illegal abortion in England, and her experience "fueled her campaign to improve women's reproductive choices." Career After graduation, she worked for the BBC before emigrating to America in 1960. After a brief stint at a Manhattan advertising agency, Dunlop went to work at the Ford Foundation (1960-1967) as an administrative assistant to the Director of Public Affairs, Paul Ylvisaker, at a time when the Public Affairs Programs would soon serve as the model for President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society/War on Poverty programs. In the late-1960s, she worked for the City of New York in the Mayor's Office of the Budget and at