Marcello Rollando talks with UNFPA’s Jane Roberts

Co-founder of 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund, Jane Roberts has an M.A. in French from the Middlebury College Graduate School of French in France. In 2001 she joined the PLANET campaign sponsored by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations to try to urge Americans to support international family planning, and in 2003 traveled to Mali and Senegal as a guest of UNFPA to see their work on site. In 2003 she was one of the Women of the Year for MS Magazine and received a Special Recognition Award from the Population, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning branch of the American Public Health Association, and in 2005 with Lois Abraham, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the 1000 Peace Women Project under the patronage of UNESCO in Bern, Switzerland. In 2005 her book “34 MILLION FRIENDS of the Women of the World” was published by LadybugPress. 

Since 2002, Jane has traveled to over 35 states and spoken at over 60 colleges and universities and to civic, law, environmental, women’s, church, and public health groups about 34 Million Friends and the deeper issues of gender inequality, global health, and particularly reproductive health. In 200, she was named Purpose Prize Fellow through Civic Ventures, and in 2009 was awarded the Global Citizenship Award from the United Nations Association, Southern California Division.

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