Who We Are
Program Staff | Faculty Board of Advisors | Fellows | Interns
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Christina Bain is the Program Administrator for The Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking 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. | ||||||||||
Program Administrator, Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking
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Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in
Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human
Rights Studies, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. She has recently authored three reports entitled Seeking Asylum Alone, about unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law , an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America ,and many articles, including Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights and The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, and citizenship. |
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Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy KSG Profile |
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Swanee Hunt was the Founding Director of the
Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School. She is currently core faculty at the
Center for Public Leadership and an advisor to the Working Group on Modern Day Slavery at
the Carr Center for Human Rights. She has taught The Choreography of Social Movements
at Harvard College and lectured at Harvards business, law, divinity, and education
graduate schools. An expert on domestic policy and foreign affairs, Hunt is president of the 27 year-old Hunt Alternatives Fund. The Fund operates out of Cambridge, Massachusetts and is focused on strengthening youth arts organizations, supporting leaders of social movements, combating human trafficking, and increasing philanthropy. Hunt also chairs the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security, conducting research, training, and advocacy to integrate women into peace processes. Her seminal work in this area began when, as the U.S. Ambassador to Austria from 1993 to 1997, she hosted negotiations and international symposia focused on stabilizing the neighboring Balkan states and on the encouragement of women leaders throughout Eastern Europe. Building on her extensive work with US non-governmental organizations, she became a specialist in the role of women in post-communist Europe. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy Adjunct Faculty, Harvard Kenndy School Senior Advisor, Carr Center Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking KSG Profile |
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Timothy Patrick McCarthy is Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Director of the new Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also teaches in the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An historian of social movements, Dr. McCarthy graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he completed his dissertation under the direction of Eric Foner. Dr. McCarthy’s research agenda focuses on the relationship between human rights and social movements in three main areas: race relations and civil rights; LGBT politics, policy, and advocacy; and modern-day slavery and human trafficking. At the Carr Center, he runs a biweekly study group on Human Rights and Social Movements, and co-chairs, with Christina Bain, the Regional Working Group on Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking. He has published two books – The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003) and Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006) – and his third book, Protest Nation: The Radical Roots of Modern America, is forthcoming from the New Press in 2010. He is also currently at work on several other book projects. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, Journal of American History, In These Times, Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Souls, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Folha, and The Nation, and he is a regular contributor to radio, web, and other media outlets. A popular and award-winning teacher and advisor, Dr. McCarthy has received the Stephen Botein Prize for Outstanding Teaching (2000), Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Senior Thesis Advising (2002, 2009), John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling (2003), Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2006, 2007, 2008), and the Special Commendation for Excellence in Teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School (2009). Dr. McCarthy is also a nationally known educator and public servant. Since 2002, he has served as Academic Director of the Boston Clemente Course in the Humanities, a multi-disciplinary college course offered free of charge to low-income adults through the Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, MA. As founding director of Harvard’s Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Project, he has spent the last decade taking groups of students down South to rebuild black churches that have been burned in arson attacks. In 2007, he received the Humble Servant Award from the National Coalition for Burned Churches for his commitment to civil rights and religious tolerance. An outspoken and respected leader in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, Dr. McCarthy was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, serves on the Board of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, and, in 2009, delivered Harvard’s prestigious Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture, entitled “Stonewall’s Children: Life, Loss, and Love after Liberation.” He lectures widely on topics ranging from history and literature to politics and human rights. |
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Malcolm Sparrow is Professor of the Practice of Public Management, Faculty Chair of the MPP Program, and Faculty Chair of the Executive Program on Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies. He served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector, and has had extensive experience with criminal investigation. Recent publications include: The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control; The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance; and License to Steal: How Fraud Bleeds Americas Health Care System. His research interests include regulatory and enforcement strategy, fraud control, and risk management and analysis. He is also a patent-holding inventor in the area of computerized fingerprint analysis and is dead serious at tennis. He holds an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University, an MPA from the Kennedy School, and a PhD in applied mathematics. | ||||||||||
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Professor of Practice of Public Management Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy KSG Profile |
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Fellows |
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Siddharth Kara
is an Affiliate of the
Human Rights and Social Movements Program, and a Fellow with the Carr
Center Initiative to
Stop Human Trafficking. He is also the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside
the Business of Modern Slavery. Kara first encountered the horrors of
slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, he traveled to
fourteen countries across four continents to research these crimes, interviewing
over four hundred slaves, witnessing firsthand the sale of humans into slavery, and
confronting those who trafficked and exploited them. His book provides a rare
business and economic analysis of the global sex trafficking industry, and recommends
legal and tactical measures to help abolish slavery once and for all. Kara advises on slavery for several organizations worldwide, including the Clinton Global Initiative and Humanity United. Since 2004, he has served on the board of directors of Free the Slaves. In 2005, he testified as an expert on human trafficking before the US Congressional Human Rights Committee. He serves on the committee founded by Kirk Douglas that is lobbying Congress to provide an official apology for pre-bellum slavery. In 2009, he was selected as a Fellow for the acclaimed TEDIndia conference. Previously, Kara was an investment banker at Merrill, Lynch, then ran his own finance and M&A consulting firm. He holds a Law degree from England, MBA from Columbia University, and BA from Duke University.
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E. Benjamin Skinner, currently a Carr Center Fellow, was raised in Wisconsin and northern
Nigeria where his father served as a British colonial administrator. Ben first learned about slavery
as a child in Quaker meeting. In 2003, as a writer on assignment in Sudan for Newsweek International,
Skinner met his first survivor of slavery. Having flown in along with an
Evangelical group, purporting to buy slaves en masse to secure their freedom, he hitched a ride
on a U.N. Cessna to the frontlines of the north-south Sudanese civil war. There he met Muong Nyong.
Like Skinner, Nyong was 27 at the time, yet unlike Skinner, he had spent the first part of his life
in bondage. Since that time, Skinner has traveled the globe to find others like Nyong, a task
which would prove to be the most daunting challenge of his professional life. Going undercover when
necessary, he has infiltrated trafficking networks and slave quarries, urban child markets and
illegal brothels. In the process, he has become the first person in history to observe the
sales of human beings on four continents. His book, A
Crime So Monstrous tells the stories of the lives of a few of these slaves, as well as of
his own often harrowing encounters with those who sell, own, and free them.
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Elliott Prasse-Freeman is currently an Associate
Research Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, where he is researching
human rights movements; human trafficking/modern day slavery; and state power, development assistance, and
human rights in Burma/Myanmar. An honors graduate of Harvard College, Prasse-Freeman spent five years
working in international development for various agencies from the UN to international NGOs.
He began working in
communications and advocacy for a human rights organization focusing on ethnic cleansing
in eastern Burma. He
then lived in Burma for one year and worked for the United Nations system (UNICEF and UNDP), and then in
Thailand for three years, where he was the Regional Project Coordinator for the International NGO
Education Development Center (EDC). There, he managed domestic projects and also conducted regular
field visits to China, India, Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam. His work for EDC also allowed him to
participate in global initiatives, including consulting for PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief) and special assignments such as disaster recovery after the Indian Ocean Tsunami
in 2005. In May 2008, Prasse-Freeman returned to Burma after the devastating Cyclone Nargis,
helping to coordinate the UN's early recovery efforts. His professional and research interests
include public health (HIV/AIDS), microenterprise and microfinance, educational access,
development, and human rights.
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Interns |
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Chloe Safier is an Intern with the Carr Center Human Rights and Social Movements
Program and the Initiative to
Stop Human Trafficking. Safier is a second year
MA candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. She received
her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, where she completed her
thesis work on the subject of women's rights and sexual harassment legislation
in the Israeli military. She then worked in Boston for the Jewish Community
Relations Council, organizing young adults around local social justice issues
including healthcare, human trafficking, and prison reform. She has studied
Hebrew and Spanish, and is currently learning Arabic. She studies human rights,
gender equality, and immigration issues in the Middle East, including the rights
of refugees, asylum seekers, and trafficking victims.
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