The International Advisory Board is a consultative body composed of prominent human rights scholars and activists from around the world who support Trinity’s Human Rights Program.

Marjorie Agosín.  Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College; award-winning author, poet, and human rights activist.
 
Christine Chinkin.  Professor of International Law, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics; leading expert on women’s human rights.
 
Jack Donnelly.  Andrew Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; internationally prominent human rights scholar.
 
David Forsythe.  University Professor and Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, University of Nebraska; recognized for his eminent contributions to the human rights field.
 
Hon. Richard J. Goldstone.  Former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; former justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa; recipient of numerous international human rights awards.

Ryan Goodman.  Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Director of the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School.

Priscilla Hayner.  Co-founder, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ); Director, ICTJ, Geneva; leading expert on truth commissions.
 
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann.  Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights, Wilfred Laurier University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; areas of expertise include economic rights, gay and lesbian rights, and human rights in Africa.
 
Amii Omara-Otunnu.  UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Executive Director of the Institute of Comparative Human Rights, University of Connecticut; advocate and scholar of human rights in Africa.
 
Sir Nigel Rodley.  Chair, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK; professor and former UN Special Rapporteur; foremost authority on the law of torture; knighted for his contributions to human rights and international law.
 
Kathryn Sikkink.  Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; leading human rights authority and winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
 
Christina Storm.  Executive Director and founder, Lawyers without Borders.
 
Eric Stover.  Director of Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, UC-Berkeley; former Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights; prolific writer and expert witness for medico-legal investigations in conflict zones.
 
José Zalaquett Daher.  Professor and Co-Director of Human Rights Center, University of Chile Law School; former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and member of Chile’s National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation.

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