Dr. Ann Frisch, with 10 years of service to Rotary, is a member of the Rotary E-Club of International Peace, District 5000.  In 2017, she received the Rotary UN People of Action Peace Champion Award, for articulating the work of Nonviolent Peaceforce and the practice of unarmed civilian protection.

Ann’s current work is as Chair of the Rotary Action Group for Peace Subcommittee on Nuclear Weapons Education working for nuclear weapons elimination. Listen to hear the significant accomplishments of this work.

She was appointed Rotary Action Group for Peace Head of Civil Society Observer Delegation to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Meetings at the United Nations in 2022 and 2019, and to the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. She will share how nuclear weapons education fits with the mission of Rotary.

As a supporter of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, she shows how it fits with Rotary’s history and accomplishments.  And she shares what Alexander Kmentt, President of the First Meeting of States Parties TPNW said: “It would be great if Rotary would endorse the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!” 

She was one of 250 women who, in 2020, called for a worldwide humanitarian ceasefire.http://pnnd.org/sites/default/files/i/doc/2020Events/may_24_statement_english_including_endorsers.pdf  The signature campaign she leads to support the Rotarian Japanese Survivors’ appeal can be found: https://rotarians.peacinstitute.org/endnukesnow