Staff — University Network for Human Rights

Our Staff

James Cavallaro

Co-Founder and Executive Director
Ruhan Nagra

Co-Founder
Sofía Galván Puente

Associate Director
Thomas Becker

Legal and Policy Director and Senior Clinical Supervisor
Emily Wilder

Researcher and Editor
Celina Giraudy

Clinical Supervisor
Pooja Bhatia

Clinical Supervisor
Salma Waheedi

Legal Advisor on the Middle East and North Africa
Ram Bhandari

Associate in Nepal
Anoush Baghdassarian

Documentation and Advocacy Fellow
Pallavi Adapa

Legal Fellow

Our Advisory Committee

Philip Alston

John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Luis Arriaga

President, Universidad Iberoamericana
Jamil Dakwar

Director, ACLU Human Rights Program
Leilani Farha

Global Director, The Shift
Maina Kiai

Director of Alliances and Partnerships, Human Rights Watch
Nadejda Marques

Professor, Wesleyan University
Khadidja Nemar

Co-Founder, MENA Rights Group
David Palumbo-Liu

Louise Hewlett Newton Professor, Stanford University
Deborah Popowski

Human Rights Advocate, Researcher, and Educator
Tracy Robinson

Professor of Law, University of the West Indies
Edward Telles

Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine