ERIC STOVER is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at UC Berkeley. In the early 1990s, Stover took part in conducting the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, he served on several medico-legal investigations as an "Expert on Mission" to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995. His most recent books include A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress); My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (edited, with Harvey Weinstein); and The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague.
MELISSA CARNAY serves as Program Representative at the Human Rights Center. She joined the Center in January 2009 to manage the Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media Conference, and currently focuses on public programs and the DNA Reunification Project. Carnay holds a BA in Ecological Studies from Seattle University.
CAMILLE CRITTENDEN joined the Human Rights Center as Executive Director in August 2006. She is responsible for overall administration of the Center, as well as fundraising and community outreach. Before her appointment to this post, she served as Assistant Dean for Development in the division of International and Area Studies and held previous positions in development and public relations at University of California Press and San Francisco Opera. She earned a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1997.
BARBARA GROB is Director of Communications and Outreach at the Human Rights Center where she manages communications, public programs and media relations. Prior to her appointment, Grob directed advocacy campaigns as a consultant to foundations and public interest groups. She is the former Vice President for Social Policy at Public Media Center and Director of the Child Support Reform Initiative. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
NEIL HENDRICK, Mobile Technology Specialist, has worked with technology for Human Rights and International Development since 2001 when he co-founded Communication Integration, a non-profit dedicated to providing computers for education in developing countries. Working with the NGO Compañeros en Solidaridad, he helped to set up a series of computer labs in rural schools near Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. As an HRC research assistant in Uganda, he fielded the proof-of-concept to use mobile technology for social sciences, adapting paper-based surveys to PDAs and testing them researching transitional justice issues. As an HRC Fellow, he worked at the International Criminal Court in the Hague providing database development. He is currently working to develop an easy-to-use, open source, mobile data collection system.
LIZA JIMENEZ is Administrative Assistant at the Human Rights Center. Jimenez served as the Conference Assistant on the Human Rights Center's DNA and Human Rights: An International Conference (2001). Prior to that, Jimenez worked for the Bar Association of San Francisco as the Marketing Assistant with the California Minority Counsel Program and Publications and Events Coordinator with the Volunteer Legal Services Program.
PHUONG PHAM is Director of Research at the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University's Payson Center for International Development. She completed a survey on trauma, PSTD, justice, and reconciliation as part of the Human Rights Center's project, "Communities in Crisis: Justice, Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia." She is a founding member of the Initiative on Vulnerable Populations and conducts research in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia, and other areas affected by mass violence.
KRISTIN REED is the Human Rights Fellows Program Director. The program awards summer fellowships to University of California students working to promote human rights across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. A social scientist interested in the nexus between human rights and environment, Reed holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. She has worked on non-profit and research initiatives in Angola, Kenya, Botswana, Uganda, Costa Rica and Cambodia.
PATRICK VINCK directs the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations. The Initiative conducts research in countries experiencing serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to give a voice to survivors of mass violence. An agricultural engineer who specializes in rural development, Vinck holds a Ph.D. in International Development. He has worked and conducted research in Iraq, Rwanda, Northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and other areas affected by armed conflict.
REBEKAH WHITE serves as Office Coordinator of the Human Rights Center. Prior to joining HRC in Fall 2007, White provided customer service at UC Berkeley's Office of Parking and Transportation.