Charlie Clements is the Carr Center's Executive Director. Prior to coming to
the Carr Center, Clements, a widely respected human rights activist and public health physician, served as
president of Unitarian Universalist Service Committee from August 2003 until February 2010. Prior to
taking the position at UUSC, he served
as executive director of Border WaterWorks, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the El Paso
Community Foundation, which assisted small U.S. communities along the border without running water or
sewers to construct such desperately needed infrastructure.
Throughout the years, Clements has faced several moral dilemmas that shaped his life. As a distinguished
graduate of the Air Force Academy who had flown more than 50 missions in the Vietnam War, he decided the
war was immoral and refused to fly missions in support of the invasion of Cambodia. Later, as a newly
trained physician, he chose to work in the midst of El Salvador's civil war, where the villages he served
were bombed, rocketed, or strafed by some of the same aircraft in which he had previously trained.
For two years in the late 1980s, Clements served as director of human rights education at UUSC, leading a
number of congressional fact-finding delegations to Central America. In 1997, as president of Physicians
for Human Rights, he participated both in the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and the treaty signing for the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Clements is author of Witness to War and the subject of an
Academy Award-winning documentary of the same title.
Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Adjunct Lecturer, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
email:
charlie_clements@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.384.8464
office:
R-213
Center Staff:
Christina Bain is the Director of the Program on Human
Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Prior to
her time at the Kennedy School, Christina was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Mitt
Romney as the Executive Director of the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic
Violence, a statewide commission of over 340 public and private sector partners. She
previously served as the Public Affairs Liaison to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor
Kerry Healey where she worked on domestic violence and criminal justice
issues, including human trafficking and sex offender management. Since 2006, she has been a
member of the Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force, one of the 42 statewide anti-trafficking
task forces funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Christina also served as a Special
Assistant to Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts.
Director, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
email:
christina_bain@ksg.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.9308
office:
R-204
Sally Chin Sally has over a decade of experience working in the field
of conflict prevention and resolution, with half of that time spent in Africa. She has worked for Search
for Common Ground, the Fondation Hirondelle, Refugees International, International Crisis Group, and
Oxfam GB. She has extensive field experience as a program manager, policy adviser, analyst and advocate,
particularly with regards to the conflicts in the DRC, Sudan, Chad and the Horn of Africa. Sally's
research and publications have focused on conflict-related displacement and humanitarian responses,
regional and international peacekeeping capacities, small arms and light weapons, protection of
civilians, and drivers of conflict. She is on the Board of Directors of Ushahidi, a project
which uses crowdsourcing to map crises internationally. Sally is a graduate of Swarthmore College
and has an MSc in Comparative Politics, with a focus on conflict and genocide early warning, from
the London School of Economics. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Project Director, Mass Atrocity Response Operations Project
email:
sally_chin@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.4512
office:
R-113
Eric Jenkins-Sahlin is administrative staff and
faculty assistant to Carr Center Executive Director Charlie Clements. Eric previously served
as faculty assistant to former Carr Center Director Rory Stewart before he was elected to
British Parliament in 2010. Eric graduated with honors from Boston University with a B.A.
in Philosophy.
Staff Assistant
email:
eric_jenkins@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.495.4646
office:
R-215
Chris Kintzing is the Carr Center’s Web
Communications Manager, responsible for making sure the Web is being used as effectively as
possible to support the Center’s mission. For the past five years, Chris has been
the Publications & Web Assistant at the Harvard Law School Library, where he
maintained the library's Web sites and also produced a variety of in-house publications.
Before coming to Harvard, Chris spent 16 years working as a software developer in the
Boston area. During that time, he worked for several local software companies, including
Interleaf, Powersoft/Sybase, and Allaire/Macromedia. Chris is excited to be here
supporting the Carr Center’s activities, and is looking forward to doing all
he can to use the Web to compliment its work.
Web Communications Manager
email:
christopher_kintzing@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.2061
office:
R-211
Bharathi Radhakrishnan is a Research Assistant for the MARO
Project. After completing her graduate program focusing on conflict studies in South Asia, Bharathi
worked in Sri Lanka with a local NGO conducting program development and research. Her work focused on
relief, reconstruction, and development projects in Sri Lanka's Northern Province for internally
displaced persons both in IDP camps and in resettled villages. Bharathi also served as a foreign
observer for the 2010 Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka in the district of Kandy. She is also a
contributing author of “Project Palestinian Enterprise,” a report published by New York University
discussing the importance of economic development to the Middle East peace process, and has worked
at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Amnesty International USA, the World Policy Institute,
and on international development projects in Ecuador and Zambia. Bharathi is a graduate of Brandeis
University and holds an MA in Politics with a specialization in International Relations from New York
University.
Research Assistant
email:
bharathi_radhakrishnan@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.5640
office:
R-113
A. Dwight Raymond, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret), is a Doctrine and
Concepts Analyst at the
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) in Carlisle, PA.
Prior to this appointment Colonel (Ret) Raymond served on the faculty at
the US Army War College. From 2006-2007 Colonel (Ret) Raymond was the
MiTT Chief of an Iraqi Army Brigade in Ninewah Province; he has also
spent several years serving in Korea including working as the Chief of
Plans for Combined Forces Command/United Nations Command. A former
infantry officer, Colonel (Ret) Raymond is a graduate of the United
States Military Academy, the School of Advanced Military Studies, the US
Army War College, and other institutions. He is married with two
children.
PKSOI Representative, MARO Project
email:
allen.raymond@us.army.mil
office:
PKSOI
Program Assistants:
David Dodge is the Program Assistant for the Sexuality Gender and
Human Rights Program. Before coming to the Harvard Kennedy School to pursue a master's degree in Public
Policy, David worked as an electoral and grassroots community organizer and researcher. From 2008 to
2010, he served as coordinator of the Right to the City-NYC alliance, a grouping of over 20
community-based organizations fighting displacement and gentrification in low-income communities.
During this time, he also worked as a research associate with the Urban Justice Center, where he
conducted a range of participatory action research on behalf of low-income and LGBTQ populations.
David was the winner of a Traub-Dicker fellowship for 2010-11, where he did research on messaging
that is utilized in the media and through direct voter contact work by both pro- and anti-LGBTQ
advocates during campaigns to pass anti-LGBTQ ballot initiatives.
Program Assistant, Sexuality Gender and Human Rights Program
email:
david_dodge@hks12.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.4548
office:
R-201a
Sophia Khan is Program Assistant at the Program on
Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. Currently, she also serves as Publishing Editor
at the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue. After graduating from Dartmouth College with
honors in classics and theater, Ms. Khan went on to receive master's degrees from Yale and
Harvard in comparative religious ethics, human rights, and international security. Her
graduate thesis examined cosmopolitanism and humanitarian intervention through the lens
of Just War Theory and featured a case study on Darfur. She has worked with the International
Center for Religion & Diplomacy, Harvard University Press, Asia Catalyst, and Integrated
Refugee and Immigrant Services. When she's not dedicating her energies to human rights
work, she loves to cook with her aunt; their first cookbook, Students Go Gourmet, was
released this September.
Program Assistant, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
email:
sophia.khan@post.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.8658
office:
R-201c
Fatima Mendikulova is the program assistant for the
Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program.
Program Assistant, Human Rights to Water & Sanitation Program
email:
fatima_mendikulova@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.495.0459
office:
R-201b
Git Nahmens graduated with honors from Boston University with a
double-major in International Relations and Political Science and a
minor in Anthropology. She has been working with the Carr Center since
her graduation in May 2009. As the Latin American Program Assistant
she is responsible for aiding Dr. Vivas with research and
administrative functions that come up as the Initiative develops. Git
has been accepted into the Conflict Resolution Certificate Program at
UMass Boston were she hopes to expand her knowledge, and to better
apply it to her current research with the Latin American Initiative.
Program Assistant, Latin American Initiative
email:
gnahmens@gmail.com
phone:
n/a
office:
R-201f
Research Associates:
Elisha Baskin is a Carr Center Research Associate working on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation in Israel and the West Bank and the Human Rights Cities Project as part of a Master's degree Practicum in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University. Elisha is originally from Jerusalem and has worked as an activist and professional in the human rights field for several years. Baskin was most recently a project manager assistant at Search for Common Ground working with Israeli and Palestinian Journalists on conflict reporting through USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation program. Previously she worked in the Human Rights Education department of the Israeli section on Amnesty International developing HRE curriculum and as a lecturer, facilitator and youth coordinator, in addition to ASSAF-aid, Organization for Aiding Refugees, working with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Tel Aviv.
Research Associate, Human Rights to Water & Sanitation and Human Rights Cities Projects
email:
elisha_baskin@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.4956
office:
R-201d
Meghan Heesch is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. She studied in the International Human Rights Clinical and conducts research on international criminal law and international humanitarian law for the Harvard Law Advocates for Human Rights. Meghan is a Senior Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal and a Managing Editor for the Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review. As a research assistant for the Human Trafficking Program, Meghan focuses on researching statutory and case law pertaining to the criminalization of human trafficking, with a focus on the use of technology to recruit and facilitate trafficking.
Research Associate, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
