William Paul Simmons
Founder and Executive Committee Member, Human Rights Practice Program
Professor, Gender & Women's Studies
On sabbatical academic year 2025-26
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Robin Al-haddad
HRTS MA alum
Santa Arias
Professor and Head in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Serge Bambara (Smockey)
Hip Hop artist
activist
founder/owner of Studio Abazon in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Victoria Bennett
HRTS MA Student
Beth E. Boyett
HRTS MA Alum
Joyceen Boyle
Country Specialist for Amnesty Internationsl, USA
Associate Dean of UA College of Nursing (Retired)
Alex Braithwaite
Professor and Director, School of Government and Public Policy
Mette Brogden
Assistant Professor of Practice, Human Rights Practice Program
Director of Graduate Studies
Executive Committee Member
Graduate Student Advisor
Sheena Brown
Assistant Professor
Program Director, Human Services
Program Director, Family Studies and Human Development
Program Director, Military Faculty Program
Anton Burkov
Director and Principal Attorney of the human rights NGO Strategic Litigation Center
Nolan Cabrera
Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP
Associate Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
Megan Carney
Associate Professor, School of Anthropology
Director, UA Center for Regional Food Studies
Priscilla Yagu Ciesay
Co-Founder and Senior Technical Advisor of Women’s Association, Women & Victims’ Empowerment (WAVE-Gambia)
Cristina Coc
Maya Leaders Alliance co-spokesperson
Founder and Program Director for Julian Cho Society
Mary Carol Combs
Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Bradford Conroy
HRTS MA Alum
Michelle L. Cook
Founder, Divest Invest Protect
Co-Director of the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegations
Ashley Dominguez
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Ted Downing
Research Professor, Social Development, Department of Research, Innovation, and Impact
Mara Duran Dominguez
Human Rights Practice student
Lena Yanina Estrada Añokazi
Researcher UNESCO and Chair, Sustainability Institute, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo
Associate Researcher, Research Center for Gender Studies, UNAM
Lucero Gonzaléz Alvarado
HRTS MA Student
Anastasia Gordienko
Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies
Edita Habibic
HRTS MA Alum
Leonard Hammer
Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member, Human Rights Practice Program
Senior Lecturer, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies
Savo Heleta
Researcher and Educator, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Seanna Howard
Clinician and Professor of Practice, College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
Leila Hudson
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture and Political Economy
Kristine A. Huskey
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Veterans' Advocacy Law Clinic, James E. Rogers College of Law
Liudmila Klimanova
Assistant Professor, MA Program in Russian Studies, University of Arizona
Affiliated Faculty, SLAT Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, University of Arizona
Amy Kraehe
Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Arizona
Jamie A. Lee
Associate Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society, School of Information
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, School of Information
Mandy Loader
Adjunct Instructor, School of Journalism
Program Associate, Center for Border & Global Journalism
Tommie Lorene
Human Rights Practice MA student
Colleen Lucey
Associate Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Elisa Marchi
Human Rights Practice Executive Committee Member
Professor of Practice, UA James E. Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
Kamila Mateeva
Associate Professor of Law Program
Director of the LL.M program, American University of Central Asia
Neish McLean
Co-Founder, TransWave Jamaica
Shefali Milczarek-Desai
Director, Workers' Rights Clinic
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Chair, Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program
Liz Miller
Professor, Communications Studies, Concordia University
Documentary Film Maker
Kaitlin Murphy
Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor of Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory
Sarah Nassiwa
HRTS MA Alum
Venkatesh Nayak
Coordinator of Access to Information, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Dmitriy Nurulleyev
Assistant Professor of Government, College of Applied Science & Technology
Principal Investigator, Aspiring Powers Initiative
Anna Ochoa O'Leary
Professor and Department Head, Mexican American Studies
Elizabeth Oglesby
Associate Professor of Geography and Latin American Studies
Adebayo Okeowo
Advisory Board Member, Human Rights and Documentary Media Grad Certificate
Robert Owens
HRTS MA Alum
Sarah Parkin
HRTS MA alum
V. Spike Peterson
Professor of International Relations, School of Government and Public Policy
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
Commissioner, Right to Information (RTI) Commission of Sri Lanka
Shayna Plaut
Director of Research and Exhibition Development, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Advisory Board Member, UA Program in Human Rights Practice
Robin C. Reineke
Assistant Research Social Scientist, University of Arizona Southwest Center
Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology
Adjunct Instructor, Program in Human Rights Practice
Jeannine Relly
Professor of Journalism
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Inclusion, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Darcy Román-Felix
Manager, Academic Programs
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Co-Director, Binational Migration Institute
Kirssa Cline Ryckman
Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Beverly Seckinger
Professor Emerita, School of Theatre, Film and Television
Executive Committee Member
Contact person for the Grad Certificate in Documentary Media
Social/Cultural/Critical Theory - GIDP
Raymond Smith
Interim Director, Human Rights Practice Program
Executive Committee Member and Faculty Member, Human Rights Practice Program
Gaye Sowe
Executive Director, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
Michelle Tellez
Associate Professor of Mexican-American Studies
Rebecca A. Tsosie
Regents' Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law
Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
Aresta Tsosie-Paddock
Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies
Christina Vanoverbeke
HRTS MA Alum
Yevheniia Varyvoda
Research Professional, Community, Environment & Policy, College of Public Health
Marcela Vasquez-Leon
Director, Latin American Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Research Anthropologist
Kah Walla
Entrepreneur, Activist and Political Leader from Cameroon
Scott Whiteford
Emeritus Professor, Center for Latin American Studies
Director of the Mexican Initiative for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Robert A. Williams
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, Rogers College of Law
Nicole Yuan
Associate Professor of Public Health
Program Director, Health Behavior Health Promotion
Jessica Zychowicz
Associate Advisor