Center for Human Rights Science › About Us

We advance human rights by harnessing the power of science and technology for those fighting against inequities and abuses of power.

Leadership

Jay D. Aronson

Director

Robin Mejia

Statistics and Human Rights Program Director

Enrique Piracés

Media and Human Rights Program Director

Research Assistants

Eric Liang

Zhenzhen Liu

Akwelle ("Q") Quaye

Research Fellows

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

Vanier Scholar, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada.

Patrick Ball

Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Maria De-Arteaga

Assistant Professor, University of Texas—Austin

Tomiwa Ilori

Alumni Coordinator / Researcher University of Pretoria

Brian McQuinn

Assistant Professor, University of Regina (Canada)

Dr. Roger A. Mitchell, Jr.

Chief Medical Examiner, Washington, DC

Megan Price

Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Claire Shubik-Richards

Executive Director, Pennsylvania Prison Society

Alumni

Sydney Barlow

Research Assistant

Ben Klingensmith

Research Assistant

Mikaela Meyer

PhD student in Statistics and Public Policy (CMU)

Nic Dalmasso

PhD student in Statistics & Data Science (CMU)

Boyan Duan

Ph.D. student in Statistics & Data Science (CMU)

Peter Rezk

Research Assistant

Xinyi (Joyce) Wang

Research Assistant

Advisory Board

Patrick Ball
Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Afsaneh Doryab
University of Virginia

Scott Edwards
Amnesty International

Hanan Elmasu
Mozilla Foundation

Jessica Hammer
Carnegie Mellon University

Alex Hauptmann
Carnegie Mellon University

Molly Land
University of Connecticut

Chris McNaboe
Carter Center

Adebayo Okeowo
WITNESS

Phuong Pham
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Megan Price
Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Brad Samuels
SITU Research

Meg Satterthwaite
NYU School of Law

Claire Shubik-Richards
Pennsylvania Prison Society

Patrick Vinck
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Staff

Leslie Levine, Grants Administrator
Leslie handles all funding-related matters for the Center.
412-268-8722
lesliele@andrew.cmu.edu

Natalie Taylor, Business Manager
Natalie handles all financial and administrative matters for the Center.
412-268-6039
nstaylor@andrew.cmu.edu