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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
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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. Christina also served as a Special Assistant to Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts. 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. In 2012, Christina became a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade. |
Director, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
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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 Stewart was elected to British Parliament in 2010. Eric graduated with honors from Boston University with a B.A. in Philosophy. |
Staff Assistant
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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. Before coming to Harvard, Chris spent 16 years working as a software developer in the Boston area. |
Web Communications Manager
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617.496.2061 |
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Sophia Khan is the 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
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sophia_kahn@post.harvard.edu |
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Fatima Mendikulova is the program assistant for the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program. Ms. Mendikulova is originally from Kyrgyzstan, and has been doing research on water issues in Ferghana Valley, a very unique area that sits between Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kygyzstan. |
Program Assistant, Human Rights to Water & Sanitation Program
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fatima_mendikulova@hks.harvard.edu |
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617.495.0459 |
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Git Nahmens Git Nahmens has been working at the Carr Center since 2009. She has a BA from Boston University in international relations and political sciences and an MA from UMass Boston in Conflict Resolution. She is the program assistant for the Latin America Program and the newly formed Transitional Justice Program. |
Program Assistant, Latin America Program
Program Assistant, Program on Transitional Justice
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Helena Pylväinen is the program assistant for the Sexuality, Gender and Human Rights Program. She is an MPP candidate working to advance justice and equality for all people through her work in education policy and human rights. She currently serves as President of the LGBTQ Caucus, Editor of the LGBTQ Policy Journal, and Research Assistant at the Carr Center. Before coming to the Kennedy School, she conducted research to evaluate programs that seek to encourage underrepresented female and minority students in science, technology, engineering and math. In the summer of 2012, Helena was an Education Pioneer Fellow at the New York City Department of Education, evaluating a Summer Learning Loss Prevention Pilot designed to reduce achievement gaps between low and high-income students. |
Program Assistant, Sexuality, Gender and Human Rights Program
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helena_pylvainen@hks13.harvard.edu |
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617.496.4548 |
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