Dr. Jenny Lind Elmaco, SPARK Executive Director, joins representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world to the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Coming off as an academic scholar of Peace and Conflict Transformation, Dr. Elmaco joins a panel of experts in a discourse on addressing the needs of women and children in emergency situations.