A women's rights advocate, Angelika Arutyunova has worked both in Uzbekistan and the United States, and leads AWID's new Bridging Knowledge and Practice program and previously Where is the Money for Women Rights? (WITM) Initiative. She is a co-author of the latest WITM research: Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots: The Status of Financing for Women's Rights Organizing and Gender Equality well as a co-author of hot off the press: New Actors, New Money, New Conversations: A Mapping of Recent Initiatives for Women and Girls. For the past three years, she has been also overseeing the creation and development of FRIDA| The Young Feminist Fund, which in two years time provided flexible funding to over 30 young feminist groups in 26 countries, with current annual budget of the fund at USD500,000. Prior to joining AWID, she worked at the Global Fund for Women <http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/>, where she was the program director for Europe and CIS grantmaking portfolio of USD1.5 millions. She has advisory status with 'Urgent Action Fund for Womens Rights and 'International Womens Fund Mama Cash, as well as supports several national and regional women's funds in a consulting capacity. She served on the Steering Committee of the Grantmakers East Forum, the Affinity group of the European Foundation Center as well as on the Board of the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.