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The Carr Center Human Rights and Social Movements Program benefits from the wise
counsel and active participation of its distinguished Advisory Collective, whose
members include:
Kevin Bales, PhD, President, Free
the Slaves, and Visiting Professor, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of
Slavery and Emancipation.
Paul Farmer, MD, Presley Professor and Chair,
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and co-founder,
Partners in Health.
E.J. Graff, is an author, journalist, and media critic who has written widely on social justice and human rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. For fifteen years, E.J. Graff was one of the few openly lesbian writers speaking and publishing in the mainstream media about LGBT issues. Her groundbreaking book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004), examined 2500 years of marriage to ask why same-sex couples belong today. Appearing five years before Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to marry same-sex couples, What Is Marriage For? has been called “essential reading” by leaders in the same-sex marriage debates. Her book and related writings on same-sex marriage have been quoted by government policymaking bodies, entered as courtroom exhibits, cited in law reviews, and assigned as course texts.
E.J. Graff’s work has appeared in such venues as the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Democracy Journal, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, TheAtlantic.com, The Nation, The New Republic, Salon.com, The Village Voice, Women’s Review of Books, and in more than a dozen anthologies. She has been a contributing blogger at Slate.com’s XX Factor and at TPMCafe.com. She has appeared in several documentaries; is regularly interviewed by public and commercial media outlets such as NPR, ABC, CBC, BBC, PBS, MTV, satellite radio, and cable news; and gives talks and engages in debates in public forums in the U.S. and abroad.
Jorie Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard University.
Moushumi Khan is the Director of Legal and Compliance at BRAC, the world's
largest development organization. She earned her J.D. degree from the University of
Michigan Law School in 1996 and a Master's in Public Administration degree from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2008 where she was
also a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. She received an
A.B. degree in Critical Social Thought, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke
College in 1993 and was awarded a Certificate in General Course in the
Government Department of the London School of Economics in 1991.
Ms. Khan has over 14 years of experience in the non-profit, economic
development and law sectors. She defines herself as a bridge and a community
builder. She has advised non-profit organizations such as the Grameen Bank
and InterAction. She has served as a legal counselor to companies,
including helping them design effective public/private partnerships,
employee diversity policies, mediate conflicts between employers and their
employees and the larger community. Most recently she was in private
practice in New York City for almost a decade concentrating on civil rights
and corporate law. Her clients included the local Bangladeshi and immigrant
populations, public and private institutions, among others. She is a
co-founder and the first President of the Muslim Bar Association of New
York. She is a leading emerging voice on entrepreneurship, interfaith and
immigrant identity issues, writing and speaking frequently on these topics.
Naomi Klein, journalist and author, The Shock
Doctrine and No Logo.
Sarah Madison,
Associate Professor Sarah Maddison, BA (Hons) UTS, PhD Sydney, is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow based in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Previously Sarah was the Research Director in the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit in the Social Policy Research Centre, and prior to that she was Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her areas of research expertise include social movements (including the women's and LGBTI movements), Indigenous political culture, Australian democracy and democratic participation, gender politics, and democratic dialogue. She has published widely and her recent books include Activist Wisdom (with Sean Scalmer, UNSW Press 2006), Silencing Dissent (Allen & Unwin 2007, co-edited with Clive Hamilton), Black Politics (Allen & Unwin 2009), Beyond White Guilt (Allen & Unwin 2011) and Unsettling the Settler State (Federation Press 2011, co-edited with Morgan Brigg).
Jane Mansbridge, PhD, Adams
Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School.
