Judith Ann Rasmussen Dushku (born 30 March 1942) is an American academic political scientist, journalist, writer and humanitarian. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and well known as a Mormon feminist, she co-founded the Mormon women's journal Exponent II, was the Relief Society President for the Boston Stake of the LDS Church, became lead founder of a humanitarian agency in Uganda, and is a professor of government at Suffolk University (Boston, Massachusetts), specializing in comparative politics and the interaction of policy and gender since the 1970s. She has been Dean of a satellite campus, and has won two major awards at Suffolk. She has also been a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Dushku was extensively quoted on Mitt Romney when he was running for a US