 Prunskienė is also a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.Prunskienė was born as Kazimira Danutė Stankevičiūtė in the village of Vasiuliškė.Her father, Pranas Stankevičius, worked as a forest ranger and owned several hectares of land.