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Current Staff | Staff Emereti
Lars Bromley is Project Director for the Geospatial Technologies and Human
Rights Project. His primary interests are applying information and communication
technologies to human rights and sustainability issues, especially geospatial
technologies. He has been with the AAAS since 1997, serving as the principal
researcher and chief cartographer for the AAAS
Atlas of Population and Environment. Following its publication by the University
of California Press and release as a web product, he developed integrated research
projects and regional geospatial databases supporting the AAAS Watershed Projects
in Russia and South America. He has an MA from the Department of Geography at
the University of Maryland.
Karen Douthwaite
Karen Douthwaite is a Geospatial Analyst for the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project. She joined the project in January 2008. Karen's primary interests lie in community-based conservation and natural resource management, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Prior to joining AAAS, she was a Program Officer in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes-Amazon Initiative. She has extensive research experience in Central and South America and has worked with conservation organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the Bushmeat Crisis Taskforce. She received a BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia and an M.S. in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Maryland.
Josh Robbins
Josh Robbins is Program Associate for the Science and Human Rights Program
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined the program in August 2006. Josh's 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, 2000-2002.
Josh has an M.A. in International Communication from American University.
Jessica Wyndham
Jessica Wyndham is Project Director for the Science and Human Rights Program
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her main interest
is in the practical application of international human rights and humanitarian
standards, including in relation to internal displacement, combating terrorism,
torture, and the death penalty. She has worked extensively with national human
rights institutions throughout Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, including
as Legal Adviser for a project of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights in Ecuador. Prior to joining the Association, she was the Legal
Adviser on IDP Issues for the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement.
Jessica holds an LLB (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the Australian National University and an LLM from the University of New South Wales.
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.
Jonathan Drake received his bachelor's degree in physics from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, and is currently completing a masters degree at Arizona State University, where he is mapping periglacial geomorphology on Mars using the THEMIS instrument aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. A former research assistant at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, his experience spans the domains of astronomy and planetary science, including earth-based photometry of main-belt asteroids and observations of the Martian surface from orbit. At AAAS, he has been involved in developing applications of imaging radar to problems relevant to human rights, as well as analyzing visible and near infrared imagery in support of program objectives.
Dirk Ewers is a graduate student at the newly founded Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Dirk's previous work experience includes humanitarian and human rights work in Latin America (Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala) and local activism in Charlottesville, VA. During his internship, he will be conducting the initial research for the Human Rights Budget Analysis project.
Rennie Ferguson is a senior at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, where she is undertaking a major in Anthropology and a minor in Mathematics. Her interest in the practical application of human rights originates from research in physical anthropology conducted at the Institute for Historical Biology at William and Mary, as well as from her study of anthropology and genetics. This summer, Rennie will be investigating the practical steps governments can take to realize the right to "enjoy the benefits of scientific progress" (Article 15, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).
Rosh Sethi is currently a third year undergraduate student studying biology at Yale University. Rosh's interest in human rights first arose as a result of his travel and volunteer experience in Haiti and India where he volunteered with Mother Teresa's Hospital for AIDS and Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital. Rosh is also passionate about science. He is currently conducting spinal cord injury research in the Lavik Lab at Yale University, and is the co-publisher of the Yale Scientific Magazine. During his internship, Rosh will be conducting research and outreach in the lead-up to the Science and Human Rights Coalition launch in January 2009.
(page updated 5/22/2008)
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