Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellows

	Hatem Abudayyeh Executive Director, Arab American Action Network (AAAN) Hatem Abudayyeh is the son of Palestinian immigrants, and the Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago, a community-based organization that supports the empowerment of the Arab American and Arab immigrant populations of greater Chicago through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education, social services, cultural outreach, and youth development.Mr. Abudayyeh is a founding Advisory Board member of the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), Board Vice President of the Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII), and a National Coordinating Committee member of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN).
	Catherine Arrowood Director of Washington Office, The Center for Victims of Torture Catherine Arrowood is Director of the Washington Office of The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT). In this position, Catherine develops and leads CVT's advocacy strategy regarding U.S. interrogation and detention policy, Appropriations, Torture Victims Relief Act and Refugee and Asylum issues. Catherine represents CVT in meetings with the Executive and Legislative branch, tracks and researches legislation, draft's testimony, letters and position papers and leads, coordinates advocacy strategy with colleague organizations and as the only torture treatment program with D.C. presence, provides advice to, consults with and engages the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs in advocacy. She also supervises CVT's Policy Counsel.
	Shahid Buttar Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee Shahid Buttar is a civil rights lawyer, hip-hop & electronica MC, independent columnist, non-profit leader, grassroots community organizer, dancer, capoerista, singer, and poet. He serves as Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and previously served on the senior staff of Muslim Advocates, as well as the American Constitution Society. He has split time between Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003.
	Cindy Cohn Legal Director (and General Counsel), Electronic Frontier Foundation Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy and supervising EFF's 11 staff attorneys and fellows. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2006 for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online." Ms. Cohn also serves as coordinating counsel for over forty national class action lawsuits against the telecommunications carriers and the government seeking to stop the ongoing dragnet warrantless surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans.
	Veena Dubal Staff Attorney, Asian Law Caucus Veena B. Dubal is a Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus (ALC). Ms. Dubal joined ALC as a Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow in 2008 when she began a project to address labor conditions in San Francisco’s largely immigrant taxi driver community. Currently, Ms. Dubal focuses on issues of civil rights in the context of national security, including racial profiling at the border, local law enforcement profiling, and FBI surveillance.
	Lama Fakih Gender, Human Rights, and Counter-Terrorism Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Prior to rejoining the Center in 2010 to manage the Center's Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism Project, Lama consulted for the Iraqi Refugee Assistant Project in Damascus, Syria where she provided legal assistance to Iraqi refugees seeking resettlement to the United States. In 2008-2009 as CHRGJ Center Fellow Lama provided research, litigation, and advocacy support to several of the Center’s thematic areas of work. Her prior experiences include working at the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch and the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. Lama was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 to conduct research on the implementation of Islamic law in the Egyptian National Courts.
	Njambi Good Campaign Director, Counter Terror with Justice Amnesty International USA Njambi Good is Amnesty International USA's Director of the Counter Terror with Justice Campaign. In this capacity, Njambi manages the day-to-day operations of the campaign, including developing strategy and helping coordinate our field organizing initiatives. Previously, she was Amnesty's National Student and Youth Program Manager in which she engaged and mobilized youth in support of Amnesty's human rights work. This has included organizing the extremely successful National Week of Student Action, the Youth Activist Kollege, and a number of other exciting initiatives. Njambi has a strong background in organizing, advocacy and campaigning as a result of both her work within AIUSA and with a number of other organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, the American Diabetes Association, and the Close Up Foundation.
	Lisa Graves Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy Lisa Graves is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, the publisher of SourceWatch.org, PRWatch.org, and BanksterUSA.org, a national watchdog group. She previously served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department, the Chief Counsel for Nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Deputy Chief of the judges' division at the U.S. Courts. She has also served as the senior legislative strategist for the ACLU, as a partner at the Center for National Security Studies, and as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School.
	Kay Guinane Program Manager, Charity and Security Network Kay Guinane is a public interest attorney who specializes in the rights of nonprofit organizations, particularly in the areas of free speech and national security. Currently she is Program Manager of the Charity and Security Network, a project aimed at bringing down barriers to legitimate work of nonprofits from ill-advised national security measures. Her work includes research, advocacy, presenting and consulting with NGOs and grantmakers in the U.S. and abroad.
	John Humphries Director for Program Coordination, National Religious Campaign Against Torture John Humphries serves as Director for Program Coordination for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and works from his home in Hartford, CT. Trained as a water resources engineer, he spent several years focused on international development. He now has more than ten years’ experience as a community organizer and trainer, serving as the director/lead organizer for organizations in rural Appalachia and in Connecticut. A member of the Hartford Friends Meeting, he traveled to Iraq in June 2002 with a Quaker/AFSC delegation, and he has helped organize a statewide interfaith network acting to oppose torture and the war in Iraq. As an organizer, he has coordinated successful state-level legislative campaigns.
	Heather Hurlburt Executive Director, National Security Network Heather Hurlburt is the Executive Director of the National Security Network, the leading edge of advocacy and communications for a forward-thinking, principled and pragmatic national security policy. She has twenty years’ government and advocacy experience in shaping and messaging policy, including time overseas, on Capitol Hill, at the State Department, the International Crisis Group, and the White House, where she was a special assistant and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton. Heather blogs at democracyarsenal.org and is a regular guest at Bloggingheads.tv.
	Monami Maulik Executive Director, DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving Monami Maulik is the founder and executive director of DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving, one of the first low-income South Asian community-based organizations for social justice in the U.S. Monami grew up in the Bronx and has been a labor and immigrant organizer in New York City since 1996. Through the End Racial Profiling Campaign DRUM is organizing to form a New York City FBI Complaint Center for racial profiling and to pass the End Racial Profiling Act in Congress.
	Patrice McDermott Director, OpenTheGovernment.org Patrice McDermott joined OpenTheGovernment.org as Director in July 2006, after more than 4 years as the Deputy Director of the Office of Government Relations at the American Library Association Washington Office. At ALA, she was the lead lobbyist on the USA PATRIOT Act, federal privacy issues, and issues of access to government information. She joined ALA in December 2001, after having served for 8 years as the senior information policy analyst for OMB Watch. Previously, she worked for the National Archives and Records Administration.
	Priya Murthy Policy Director, South Asian Americans Leading Together Priya Murthy is the Policy Director at SAALT. As Policy Director, she monitors and analyzes legislative and administrative policies affecting the South Asian community; conducts advocacy on various policy issues; and develops educational materials for the South Asian community members and organizations. She also represents the organization as a member of immigrant and civil rights coalitions as well as before lawmakers and governmental agencies. She previously worked for various Immigration Courts, the Amnesty International Refugee Office and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in New Delhi.
	Jumana Musa Policy Director, Rights Working Group Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and activist. She is currently the Policy Director for the Rights Working Group, a national coalition of civil rights, civil liberties, human rights and immigrant rights advocates working to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has certain inalienable rights including the right to a fair trial, freedom from arbitrary detention, and protection from discriminatory application of the law. Formerly, she served as the Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and International Justice at Amnesty International USA, where she addressed the domestic and international impact of U.S. counterterrorism efforts on human rights.
	Jen Nessel Coordinator of Communications, Center for Constitutional Rights Prior to joining the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in January 2004 to work on communications, media and messaging, Jen Nessel worked as a writer, editor and organizer. She served as the communications director of the Coalition for the Homeless and managed the anti-war events the Lysistrata Project and Operation Strangelove. Her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Newsday, Self, Lingua Franca, and Salon.
	Tamia Pervez Policy Organizer, South Asian Network Tamia Pervez serves as Policy Organizer at South Asian Network (SAN). Her primary responsibility is to develop SAN's policy advocacy program, which seeks to effectively link policy analysis and advocacy to community outreach and grassroots organizing. The program’s emphasis is on immigrant rights and national security. Tamia holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she specialized in the Critical Race Studies program.
	Nathaniel Raymond Program Director of Campaign Against Torture, Physicians for Human Rights Nathaniel A. Raymond is the director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Since 2006 he has led PHR's investigations of the involvement of health professionals in the abuse of detainees in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at the CIA's "black site" facilities.
	Michelle Richardson Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union Michelle Richardson is a Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union where she specializes in national security issues such as surveillance and state secrets, and open government initiatives. Before working at the ACLU, she was Democratic Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, where she worked on national security, human rights, constitutional law and Administration oversight activities.
	Rajdeep Singh Jolly Director of Law and Policy, The Sikh Coalition Rajdeep joined The Sikh Coalition in December 2009. As Director of Law and Policy, he focuses on developing and promoting policy solutions for civil rights issues through an interdisciplinary combination of government affairs, media relations, and interfaith coalition building. Prior to joining The Sikh Coalition, Rajdeep served as Director of Law and Policy at the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), where he initiated national civil rights campaigns and articulated Sikh perspectives in various settings, including television; radio; newspapers; community forums; and panel discussions.