WHO WE ARE
The Human Rights Cities Alliance (HRCA) works to build a network of local, national, and international human rights leaders and to support activists and organizers advancing the human rights city organizing framework. The Alliance promotes the development and sharing of knowledge and models for improving respect for human rights and dignity. Recognizing that human rights don’t trickle down, they rise up, we support communities organizing and acting together to bring human rights to bear at home, drawing upon global human rights standards, institutions, and movements. Guided by the Human Rights Cities Statement of Principles, we promote “people-centered human rights” based in experiences and struggles of marginalized communities.
HRCA is governed and managed by a volunteer steering committee comprised of a North American network of advocates and scholar-practitioners. More info on the members of the HRCA Steering Committee is below. To contact members please email: info@humanrightscities.mayfirst.org
WHAT WE DO
STEERING COMMITTEE
Catherine Adams
Claflin University, Associate Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Molefi Askari
Ubuntu Institute for Community Development
Madeline Baer
Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Lisa Borden
Senior Policy Council for International Advocacy, Southern Poverty Law Center
Tara Campbell
Dayton United for Human Rights (DUHR) Coalition, Executive President
Anthony Chase
Occidental College
Allan-Charles Chipman
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Joshua Cooper
Director, Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights
Manisha Desai
Empowerment Charitable Trust Endowed Professor of Global Citizenship, Executive Director of the Center for Changing Systems of Power and a professor in the Department of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University
Tamar Ezer
University of Miami, Acting Director, Human Rights Clinic
Jacob Flowers
American Friends Service Committee - Southern Region
Kristi Kenyon
University of Winnipeg, Director Human Rights Program
Ev Meade
Director, Proceso Pacífico
Tina Kempin Reuter
Director, Institute for Human Rights, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rob Robinson
Partners for Dignity and Rights
Britton Schwartz
Deputy Director of the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Santa Clara University School of Law
Jackie Smith
Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance & University of Pittsburgh