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In 2014–15, Blaustein and several colleagues used this knowledge to found WomenStrong
International, which provides grants and technical assistance to organizations that work to improve the wellbeing of women and girls in urban communities worldwide. The organization has awarded almost $ 10 million
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Blaustein reported on conflict, politics, economics, and social injustice from the
Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Mongolia; she continued to report on policy and injustice from Washington, DC, Huntsville, Texas, and the Balkans, with articles featured in such publications as
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Blaustein said she was "jolted from my ivory tower" in 1988 by her immersion in the challenges facing so many of her neighbors in Manila, Philippines, where she had gone in 1988 to fulfill her
Guggenheim Fellowship when her journalist boyfriend-now-husband Alan Berlow opened
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In 2006, Blaustein co-founded and then led The
Millennium Cities Initiative, a decade-long Earth Institute project devoted to helping selected sub-Saharan cities practice sustainable urban development by attaining the
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on Jewish affairs, lobbied for human rights commitments to be enshrined in the UN charter, and as co-chair of the Jewish Claims
Conference Against Germany, helped lead the apportionment of reparations after the
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to continue her reporting, together with veteran humanitarian and investigator John
Fawcett, on the gross human rights abuses and financial misdeeds perpetrated by alleged war criminals
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Blaustein's career began in music while at Yale
University, where she composed her Fantasie for Piano Solo and other chamber works with the help of a grant in 1981 from the
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from 1985 to 1989, during which time she completed her DMA from the Yale School of Music, composed numerous works, and continued to learn from her senior colleagues,
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Harvard Junior Fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows (1982–85), and has received numerous awards, including from the
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for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and chamber orchestra, a cello concerto, and a sextet for the New York New Music
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She has written professional articles including: "The
Survival of Aesthetics: Books by Boulez, Delio, Rochberg".
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While at the Yale School of Music, Blaustein received a number of awards and commissions, including from the
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in grants since its founding and currently includes 18 partners across 15 countries.
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Blaustein was honored in 2019, as one of the "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by
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in 1985; a cello concerto, premiered in 1984 at the Library of Congress by
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