Our Contributors

Brian Evans is the Campaigner for Amnesty International USA’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, in 2006, he was a founding member of the Texas Moratorium Network and a member of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, organizations working to stop executions in the state of Texas. >>>

Bryna Subherwal is the Individuals at Risk Campaigner for the Americas. In this position she leads the development and implementation of campaign strategies for individual cases of human rights abuses throughout Latin America, the US, and Canada. >>>

Christoph Koettl is the Crisis Prevention and Response Campaigner at Amnesty International USA. In this position he coordinates AIUSA’s responses to international human rights crises and works on a project that utilizes geospatial technologies for documenting human rights violations and preventing conflict. >>>

Corporate Action Network work includes members from Amnesty International USA's Business & Economic Relations Group (BERG), an expert group of volunteers who support the organization's work on corporate accountability for human rights abuses. >>>

Curt Goering is Senior Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programs of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), and currently works at the organization’s national section headquarters in New York City. Goering has been involved with Amnesty International at many levels for more than twenty-five years, including positions at Amnesty’s international headquarters in London and at its government relations office in Washington, D.C. >>>

Daniela Rodriguez is the New Media assistant for Amnesty International USA in Washington DC. She is a volunteer facilitator for the AIUSA Human Rights Education Service Corps and an avid human rights activist currently working in online advocacy. Daniela is a bilingual blogger as well, and contributes to the Aliados ¡Derechos Ahora! blog regularly. >>>

Edith Garwood is the Amnesty International USA Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Palestinian Authority. She's a long time human rights activist that acted as Country Coordinator for AIUSA on Israel and the Occupied Territories during the first intifada as well (1987-1993). She has lived, studied and traveled in the Middle East throughout the past two decades. >>>

Elise Auerbach is the Iran and Jordan country specialist for Amnesty International USA. >>>

Gay Gardner is a member of AIUSA's Counter Terror With Justice (CTWJ) Working Group. She has been an active volunteer member of Amnesty International for more than 25 years. >>>

Geneve Mantri is the Government Relations Director, for Terrorism and Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USA. He is responsible for advocacy for Amnesty International on national security issues including detainees, torture and accountability. >>>

Geoffrey Mock is Egypt country specialist and chair of the Middle East County Specialists for AIUSA. He has worked on the Middle East for Amnesty for 17 years. >>>

Gouri Sadhwani is the Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. >>>

Jason Opeña Disterhoft is the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Campaigner at Amnesty International USA. His current work focuses on health and housing. >>>

Jim McDonald is the Sri Lanka country specialist for Amnesty International USA. >>>

Juliette Rousselot is the International Advocacy Assistant for the Science for Human Rights (SHR) program. In this position, she provides general support to the program, as well as advocacy support for country work on SHR projects, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa and the Crisis Prevention and Response work. >>>

Kate Vandermade is the Central America Co-Group Chair and RAN Coordinator in AIUSA's Country Specialist Program. She works with local and student groups to organize events about Central America and Mexico human rights abuses. >>>

Kathryn R. Striffolino been with Amnesty International USA since the fall of 2007. She is currently the International Advocacy Associate Director at AIUSA focusing primarily on Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the Science for Human Rights Associate. >>>

Kathy Taylor is a member of AIUSA Group 15 in Concord, Massachusetts. She is the group liaison to the Counter Terror With Justice Campaign, and she coordinates Group 15's advocacy work on behalf of the Uyghurs at Guantanamo Bay. Kathy works as a software technical writer. >>>

Larry Cox is Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. In assuming leadership of AIUSA, Larry's career has come full circle 30 years after joining the organization as its first press officer. >>>

Sameer Dossani is the Director of Amnesty International's Demand Dignity Campaign. >>>

Sarah Hager is a volunteer leader at Amnesty International USA, serving as Chair of the Southern Africa Co-Group where she guides the efforts of Country Specialists monitoring human rights in twelve countries. >>>

Sarnata Reynolds is the Refugee Program Director at Amnesty International USA where she promotes the enforcement of international human rights standards pertaining to refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. >>>

Scott Edwards is Project Manager for the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and researches issues at the intersect of political violence and conflict, human rights, and aid provision. >>>

Simon Maghakyan is a Eurasia country specialist with Amnesty International USA. He is a Political Science graduate student at University of Colorado where he studies international relations, ethnic conflict, foreign policy, and indigenous peoples’ political structures. >>>

Tom Parker is the Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USA. He was previously Executive Director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in New Haven, Connecticut >>>

Travis W. Hall is a volunteer with Amnesty International USA's Counter Terror With Justice Working Group and practices law in Portland, Oregon for the firm Bateman Seidel. He is an adjunct professor of international law and national security law & policy at the Lewis and Clark Law School. Mr. Hall is a former Army interrogator and Arabic linguist who later served as an Army Judge Advocate ("JAG"). >>>

Vienna Colucci is Mangaing Director of AIUSA's Policy and Advocacy Unit. Vienna has been a member of AIUSA's staff since 1992. >>>

Zahir Janmohamed is the Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International where he helps coordinate the organization's lobbying and community organizing on Middle East/North Africa related issues. >>>

Zeke Johnson is a Campaigner with Amnesty International USA's Counter Terror With Justice Campaign. He works to stop torture and other ill-treatment, end illegal detention and ensure that human rights abuses committed in the name of national security are investigated and prosecuted. >>>