Margaret Swink

Director of Communications
San Francisco

Margaret Swink serves as Ploughshares Fund’s Communications Director. With a broad background in both international relations and communications, Margaret strives to make security issues understandable and compelling to both policy makers and informed citizens.

Prior to Ploughshares, she masterminded social change communications on a wide range of issues including rainforests, international climate policy, fisheries and human rights. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Foreign Policy and Human Rights from Yale University and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from Michigan State University’s James Madison College. In between degrees, Margaret served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, West Africa.

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Recent content

A Small, but Essential Victory

October 18, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Cutting Where It Counts

 In January, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned us that government’s fiscal management might at some point become one of the nation’s largest threats to national security:

August 9, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Budget Cutters Take Note

July 13, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Joe Cirincione joins the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board

Today, the State Department annouced the new members of the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). Among them was our own Joe Cirincione. 

July 12, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

A New START for Philanthropic Engagement

In the policy world, the New START campaign symbolized a return to responsible arms control, led by an engaged and committed American president.

July 1, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Reclaiming Mother's Day for Peace

Did you know Mother’s Day was originally meant to be about peace?
 
Established by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, Mother’s Day was originally intended to organize women for peace and disarmament after the Civil War. This year, Ploughshares Fund is bringing the holiday back to its roots with its Roses for Peace campaign, offering organic roses in honor of mothers as a way to raise funds to support women’s leadership for a nuclear free world.
 
May 8, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

We are diminished. John C. Haas, 1919 - 2011

Another friend and supporter of Ploughshares Fund passed away this week. Philanthropist and business leader John C. Haas died on Saturday, aged 92.

April 6, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Background on the News: Mohamed ElBaradei

With Egypt's revolutionary protests dominating the news, Mohamed ElBaradei has been in the spotlight as an important political figure in a new Egypt.

February 4, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Ploughshares Fund Honors Rebecca Wood Watkin: 1913-2010

Becky, a life-long philanthropist and political activist, passed away at the age of 97 on December 19, 2010 at her home in La Jolla, California.

February 1, 2011 - By Margaret Swink

Lessons Learned from the New Start Campaign

This article by Ploughshares Fund Government Affairs Representative Robert Leonard was featured by the Connect U.S. Fund

January 12, 2011 - By Margaret Swink