Kate Elaine McInturff (22 August 1968 – 27 July 2018) was a Canadian policy analyst, scholar, and gender-equality activist. McInturff was born in

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, United States. She received a PhD from the

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in postcolonial studies. McInturff started her career as an academic, teaching at the

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, and the

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. She then moved into the nonprofit sector, working at Peacebuild, the Feminist Alliance for International Action and

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. For several years, she wrote the gender issues chapter of the

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Alternative Federal Budget and in 2013 she formally joined the staff where her work included directing the "Making Women Count" initiative and compiling a significant annual report on gender equality across Canada. She also served on the United Nations Advisory Group on Inequalities and the Coordinating Committee of Social Watch.

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