About us 

​This website was created by the Human Rights Resilience Project. The Project seeks to promote resilience and improve mental health and well-being among human rights advocates. The members of the project conduct research into mental health, promote awareness of well-being issues in the human rights, offer trainings and mentoring, and work to support the development of a global community of practice engaged in collective learning about resilience. 
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Rohini Bagrodia

​Rohini Bagrodia graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, and holds a dual BA in Biological Sciences, concentrating in Neurobiology, and Economics. 
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Adam Brown

Adam Brown is a Clinical Psychologist with academic appointments as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. Brown directs the Sarah Lawrence College Cognition and Emotion Laboratory and he has been working with trauma exposed populations for the past 15 years.
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​Sarah Knuckey

​Sarah Knuckey is faculty co-director of the Human Rights Institute, director of the Human Rights Clinic, and the Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She has conducted investigations of human rights and humanitarian violations around the world. 
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Margaret Satterthwaite

Margaret Satterthwaite is the Faculty Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and a Co-Chair and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. She is a Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Global Justice Clinic.  
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Ria Singh Sawhney

Ria Singh Sawhney is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law, where she coordinates research relating to mental health and well-being within human rights organizations. She has an LLM from Columbia Law School.
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Alexandra Zetes

​Alexandra Zetes is the Human Rights Fellow at the Vance Center for International Justice, where she works on a variety of human rights issues. She is a recent graduate of NYU School of Law, and has almost ten years of experience in the human rights field. 
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