The Black Lives Matter Movement, Racial Inequality, and Human Rights in the United States

Co-hosted by the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice and the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights
September 22, 2015
Panelists:
Steven Hawkins '88 is the executive director of Amnesty International USA. He previously worked as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and as an advocate for human rights at Atlantic Philanthropies.
Vince Warren is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). He oversees CCR’s groundbreaking litigation and advocacy work. Prior to this tenure, he was a national senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Gay McDougall is the former UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues and is currently a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
Meena Jagannath is a co-founder of the Community Justice Project in Miami. Until 2012, she worked for the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux/Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (BAI-IJDH) where she coordinated the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project.
Thenjiwe McHarris is a co-founder of BlackBird and was formerly the Human Rights at Home campaign director at the US Human Rights Network.
Moderator:
Philip Alston is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and the UN special rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights.
Nikki Reisch '12, legal director of CHRGJ, introduced the speakers.