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Lars Bromley
Lars Bromley is a Senior Program Associate in the Office of International Initiatives
as well as adjunct staff for the Science and Human Rights Program. His primary
interests are applying information and communication technologies, especially
geospatial technologies, to human rights and sustainable development. He has
been with the AAAS since 1997, serving as the principal researcher and chief
cartographer for the AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment, and developing
integrated research projects and databases supporting AAAS projects in Russia
and South America. He has an M.A. in Geography from the University of Maryland.
Josh Robbins
Josh Robbins is Senior Project Coordinator for the Science and Human Rights
Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His areas
of interest include open access, wireless technologies and communication rights.
Before coming to AAAS, Josh was a graduate academic advisor at American University.
He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga, where he
initially became interested in communication rights and their impact on social/economic
development, especially regarding software, hardware and wireless technology.
Josh received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis,
and a Master of Arts degree in International Communication from American University,
where his thesis explored the relationship between social movements and technology.
Mona Younis
Mona Younis, Ph.D., joined the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 as Director of the Science and Human Rights
Program. Prior to joining the Association, she was human rights Program Officer
at the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, overseeing funding programs for human rights
in the U.S. and internationally as well as immigrant rights. She was also an
independent consultant to the Foundation, the United Nations and other clients.
While at the Foundation, Dr. Younis served as Coordinator of
the International Human Rights Funders Group. She facilitated this international
association of more than 400 grantmakers between 2000 and 2005, working to expand
the philanthropic community’s support for human rights work at home and abroad.
She is a founding board member of the Fund for Global Human Rights (Washington,
DC) and the Arab Human Rights Fund (Beirut, Lebanon).
Dr. Younis is author of Liberation and Democratization:
The South African and Palestinian National Movements, University of Minnesota
Press (2000). Her articles include, “An Imperfect Process: Funding the Human
Rights Movement - A Case Study” in Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges
of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Nongovernmental Organizations,
Cambridge University Press (2006). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of California at Berkeley and earned her Bachelor and Master degrees at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Jana Asher
Jana Asher (2002-2003; 2005-2007) left the program in order to focus on completing her dissertation. Her early work for AAAS included statistical consultation on projects for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As a Senior Program Associate, she was involved in several initiatives, including the SHR Program's casework activities on behalf of persecuted scientists, engineers, and health professionals through the AAAS Human Rights Action Network (AAASHRAN) and organization of SHR events. She served as the second SHR-AAAS representative on the steering committee of the African Transitional Justice Research Network and was also the statistical consultant on a multi-national survey of the Project on Science and Intellectual Property
in the Public Interest. Finally, her work as the Metagora Training Materials Committee Chair, and as the Chair of the Rapid Response Committee of the Volunteerism Special Interest Group of the American Statistical Association, continued under the sponsorship of the AAAS during her tenure here.
Victoria Baxter
Victoria Baxter (2000-2006) joined the United Nations Organization in July of 2006 after five years as a SHR staff member. While
at AAAS as a Senior Program Associate, she directed the SHR Program's casework activities on behalf of persecuted scientists, engineers, and health professionals
through the AAAS Human Rights Action Network (AAASHRAN). Victoria was also the primary staff member on several SHR
transitional justice projects. Victoria was particularly interested in the issue of memorialization or how societies choose to remember
and interpret past violence, and served as the first SHR-AAAS representative on the steering committee of the
African Transitional Justice Research Network.
Amanda Brewster
Amanda Brewster (2003-2005) was a Program Associate for the Project on Science and Intellectual Property in
the Public Interest. She is interested in the application of scientific knowledge to address societal needs, particularly those related to
public health and the environment. Before joining AAAS, she worked on science policy issues for the National Council for Science and the
Environment. She has conducted research on pollination biology, and studied the ecology of Lyme disease transmission for her undergraduate thesis.
Amanda left AAAS to pursue her higher education at the London School of Economics.
Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D.
Audrey R. Chapman (1991-2006) served as the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for fifteen years. Until October 2002, she
also directed the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science,
Ethics and Religion. Dr. Chapman directed or co-directed a series of AAAS projects dealing with
health and human rights issues, developing strategies for monitoring economic and social rights, evaluating
the effectiveness and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the
ethical and policy implications of genetic research and applications. She left AAAS in June of 2006 to become
the first holder of the Healey Memorial Chair in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Stephen A. Hansen
Stephen Hansen was Project Director with the Science & Human Rights Program.
His work focused on projects relating to the effects of intellectual property
rights on science, and traditional knowledge and human rights. He served as
the Project Manager for the AAAS project Science
& Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI). He is co-author
of the handbook Traditional Knowledge
and Intellectual Property and designed the Traditional
Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database (T.E.K.*P.A.D), an online digital
archive of traditional practices from local communities throughout the world
that are already in the public domain. Stephen’s other main area of work was
in economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), with a special concentration
in cultural rights where he worked with the United Nations Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights and UNESCO. He is the author of a chapter on cultural
rights in the program’s publication Core
Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Other ESCR work has been in violations monitoring and documentation, which included
the publication of the Thesaurus of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He has directed projects with the
National Commission for Human Rights in Honduras, and the Centro de Estudios
Legales y Sociales (Center for Legal and Social Research, CELS) in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Stephen holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Oberlin College
and an M.A. in Anthropology from The George Washington University in Washington,
DC.
Michael Kisielewski
Michael Kisielewski was Program Associate for the AAAS project on Science
and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI). His areas of interest
included traditional knowledge and intellectual property in the life sciences,
intellectual property patenting issues at the international level, and general
national and international science policy. Prior to joining AAAS, Michael served
the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Food and Agriculture
program as a research associate and, before joining CSPI, he worked as a research
associate for the National Academy of Sciences’ Board and Agriculture and Natural
Resources. In that capacity, Michael provided background research and prepared
text for several studies on national and international agricultural biotechnology,
where he worked with numerous science advisory committees—many of which included
experts whose innovations were in the process of being patented. Michael received
a Master of Arts degree in International Security Studies from the University
of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science
from George Washington University. He has published and presented several professional
conference papers on national and international science policy.
Sarah Olmstead
Sarah Olmstead (2004-2006) was Project Coordinator and later a consultant with
the Science and Human Rights Program. She left AAAS to become a graduate fellow
at the Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS) located in Santa Monica, California.
A slight departure from her masters work in physics, Sarah will be studying
for a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis. Sarah is interested in the intersection between
science and society and how science can be employed in the public interest.
She has worked with the Black Sash and the Parliamentary Monitoring Group in
South Africa, attending parliamentary meetings and disseminating minutes of
those meetings in an effort to encourage public understanding and oversight
of governmental processes. She received a B.S. in physics from Harvey Mudd College
and an M.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where
her thesis was on in vivo autocorrelation spectroscopy of cotransfected
proteins.
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