Charlotte Bunch, an American feminist scholar, started several organizations throughout the 1970s and 1980s to connect women and create activist coalitions. She was influenced by her upbringing in the Christian church to pursue social justice into adulthood. Before starting the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press in 1977, Bunch published Women’s Liberation, Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, and The Furies, a short-lived lesbian newspaper, out of Washington, D.C. Bunch also founded the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1989 at Rutgers University. The center lobbied international bodies, like Amnesty International and the United Nations, to prioritize women’s rights as a global issue. Partially due to this activism, the United Nations organized the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace, held in Beijing, China in 1995.