Our Team
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.
Adam Brown
Adam Brown is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab. He holds academic appointments as an Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on mental health and trauma and he is involved in a number of initiatives related to wellbeing in human rights advocates and defenders.
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.
Anjli Parrin
Anjli Parrin is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is a Kenyan human rights advocate and lawyer. She directs the Global Human Rights Clinic, which works alongside partners and communities to advance justice and address the inequalities and structural disparities that lead to human rights violations worldwide.
Yara Sallam
Yara Sallam is an Egyptian feminist living next to what she loves the most; the Red Sea. For the past decade she has been interested in wellbeing, care and healing in feminist and activist circles through research, writing and facilitation. Yara is currently leading the Peer to Peer Support program for human rights advocates within the Human Rights Resiliency Project
Manaswi Sangraula
Manaswi Sangraula is a postdoctoral researcher in Migration and Mental Health at The New School.
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
Margaret Satterthwaite is a Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and the Director of the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic at NYU School of Law. Her research interests include legal empowerment, access to justice, and vicarious trauma and wellbeing among human rights workers.
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.
Adam Brown
Adam Brown is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab. He holds academic appointments as an Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on mental health and trauma and he is involved in a number of initiatives related to wellbeing in human rights advocates and defenders.
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.
Anjli Parrin
Anjli Parrin is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is a Kenyan human rights advocate and lawyer. She directs the Global Human Rights Clinic, which works alongside partners and communities to advance justice and address the inequalities and structural disparities that lead to human rights violations worldwide.
Yara Sallam
Yara Sallam is an Egyptian feminist living next to what she loves the most; the Red Sea. For the past decade she has been interested in wellbeing, care and healing in feminist and activist circles through research, writing and facilitation. Yara is currently leading the Peer to Peer Support program for human rights advocates within the Human Rights Resiliency Project
Manaswi Sangraula
Manaswi Sangraula is a postdoctoral researcher in Migration and Mental Health at The New School.
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
Margaret Satterthwaite is a Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and the Director of the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic at NYU School of Law. Her research interests include legal empowerment, access to justice, and vicarious trauma and wellbeing among human rights workers.