The Carr-Ryan Center community includes leading scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, exploring issues including artificial intelligence, corruption, migration, trafficking, and torture. Our experts embrace backgrounds ranging from diplomacy to business and social responsibility, and to technology and ethics.
Carr-Ryan Center Leadership
Maggie Gates
Executive Director
Mathias Risse
Faculty Director
Affiliated Faculty
Desmond Ang
Arthur Applbaum
Lotem Bassan-Nygate
Jacqueline Bhabha
Cornell William Brooks
Erica Chenoweth
Dara Kay Cohen
Yanilda González
Zoe Marks
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Liz McKenna
Samantha Power
Kathryn Sikkink
Roya Talibova
Robert Wilkinson
Fellows
Ann E. Towns
Philomena Polefrone
(She/Her)
Kimahli Powell
(He/Him)
Brady Hanshaw (He/Him)
LGBTQI+ Leadership Fellow
Dan Ma (He/Him)
LGBTQI+ Leadership Fellow
Atim Mackin (He/Him)
LGBTQI+ Leadership Fellow
Staff
Anna Livia Arida
Program Assistant
aarida@hks.harvard.edu
Kyle Faneuff
Multimedia Communications Coordinator
Kyle_Faneuff@hks.harvard.edu
Diego Garcia Blum
Program Director, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights
diegogarciablum@hks.harvard.edu
Yuqing Lu
Finance Manager
yuqinglu@hks.harvard.edu
Erin Norris
Senior Fellowships Coordinator
enorris@hks.harvard.edu
Ana Karina Sibrian Zepeda
Events and Program Coordinator
aksibrianzepeda@hks.harvard.edu
Ying Xin
Program Manager, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights
yingxin@hks.harvard.edu
Meg Foley Yoder
Assistant Director of Communications
myoder@hks.harvard.edu
Students
Nayanika Kapoor
Student Ambassador
Ying Wang
Student Ambassador
Learn more about the Carr-Ryan Center’s Advisory Board and the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program Founders.