Board of Directors

Board Members

Andrea Carmen

Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Indian Nation, has been a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) since 1983 and IITC’s Executive Director since 1992. In 1977, IITC was the first Indigenous organization to receive Consultative Status from the UN...
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Puja Dhawan

Puja Dhawan is the Senior Manager of Initiatives for Girls and Women at the NoVo Foundation. Her work focuses on ending violence against women and girls, and empowering women and girls in the United States and overseas. She was previously...
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Dr. Ellen Dorsey

Ellen Dorsey has 25 years experience promoting international human rights, particularly economic and social rights, and advocating for environmental sustainability. Dorsey is the Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, a private foundation located in Washington, DC, that focuses on...
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Jenni Gainsborough

Jenni Gainsborough was the Director of the Washington Office of Penal Reform International (PRI) from 2002 to 2008. PRI has programs throughout the world working to improve access to justice and to ensure the human treatment of prisoners in accordance...
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Dr. Keith Jennings

Dr. Keith Jennings is a human rights and democratic development specialist. He currently serves as the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Senior Associate and Regional Director for Southern and East Africa. Over the past decade, he has represented NDI in a...
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Saladin Muhammad

Saladin Muhammad is the Coordinator for the International Worker Justice Campaign, member of Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ), Retired International Representative with United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150, member of the Million Worker March, and member of the Black Left...
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Cynthia Soohoo

Cynthia Soohoo is the Director of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. Prior to her tenure with CUNY, she was the Director of the U.S. Legal Program at the...
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Emery Wright

Emery Wright is the Co-Director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. Project South is a membership-based social justice organization and movement building institution rooted in the US South. Project South provides leadership development and political...
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