Carr-Ryan Center faculty, fellows, and affiliates bring cutting-edge expertise and research on global human rights issues, including technology, LGBTQI+ rights, racial justice and more.
The Unfinished Fight for Data Protection: Power, Privacy, and Control in the Age of AI
By Olivier Alais, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
Privacy in the Age of Permanent Exceptions
By Nona Mamulashvili, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
Google’s Hidden Empire
By Nicolas Shaxson, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26, and Brianna Rock
The Privacy Budget We Never Agreed To
By Joël N. Christoph, Technology and Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
Under U.S. Ownership, TikTok Poses an Even Greater Threat to Americans’ Privacy
By Patrick K. Lin, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2024-25
Privacy Makes Neutral Institutions Possible
By Paco Pangalangan, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
A Meaningful DROP in the Messy Bucket That Is the Data Brokerage Industry
By Payas Parab, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26, and Omkar Katre, Associate Researcher, Stanford University
Digital Handmaidens: 'Your Body, Their Data'—Surveillance Capitalism as Reproductive Injustice in the Post-Roe Era
By Nai Lee Kalema, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2024-25, and Sarah Al Futtaim
Dr. King’s Legacy Under Attack in 2026: The Metastasis of Colorblindness into Cultivated Blindness
By Antonio L. Ingram II, Racial Justice Fellow (2025–26)
“Injustice Anywhere”: Martin Luther King Jr., Moral Courage, and the Protests in Iran
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University
What Trump Misunderstands About U.S. Interests and the UN
By Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy
Technology, Power, and the Reframing of Human Rights Responsibilities
By Olivier Alais, Technology & Human Rights Fellow 2025-26
The U.S. Refugee Re-Vetting Order Violates the Principle of Non-Refoulement
By Kimahli Powell, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow
The U.S. Helped Build the Universal Human Rights System. “Natural Rights” Would Tear It Down
By Desirée Cormier Smith and Jessica Stern, Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy Senior Fellows
Reclaiming Western Identity: A Human Rights Day Response to America's New National Security Strategy
By Mathias Risse, Harvard University