Her work with academic institutions includes service at Johns Hopkins University as a member of the Board of Trustees, as chair of its Academic Affairs Committee, as advisory editor of The Hopkins Review, and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press. She is a member of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Advisory Board. At Brown University, she served on the Board of Trustees and on the Advisory Board of the Brown Women Writers Project. She is an emeritus trustee of both universities. Leedom-Ackerman is an emeritus Director of Human Rights Watch where she chaired the Asia Advisory Board. She has served on the Board of Trustees of Save the Children and on Save the Children's Advisory Board on Global Education. She has served on boards of the Albert Einstein Institution and the Advisory Boards of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the International Center for Research on Women and 100 Reporters. She is a member of the Chairman's Advisory Council of the United States Institute of Peace, and she was an advisor for the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict", which aired in two parts in September 2000. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, PEN American Center, PEN USA, English PEN, the Authors Guild and the Texas Institute of Letters. Leedom-Ackerman has also taught creative writing at Empire State College of State University of New York, Lehman College of City University of New York, New York University, Occidental College and The University of California at Los Angeles Extension. Articles: