CCR Staff

February 10, 2015

Meet the CCR staff. Our legal, advocacy and Bertha Justice Institute staff, housed in the Legal Department, and our communications staff, are responsible for CCR’s programmatic work. Our Development and Administration Departments, meanwhile, make all of our other efforts possible. Together, we’re a team passionately devoted to our clients and the justice struggles in which our litigation and advocacy work is grounded.

Staff by Department

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Vincent Warren

Executive Director

Discriminatory Policing, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice

Legal and Advocacy

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Baher Azmy

Legal Director

Discriminatory Policing, Guantanamo, Muslim Profiling, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Lupe Aguirre

Bertha Justice Fellow

Abusive Immigration Practices, Bertha Justice Institute, Criminalizing Dissent, Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice
Darius Charney

Senior Staff Attorney

Criminalizing Dissent, Discriminatory Policing, Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice
Claire Dailey

Senior Legal Worker

Criminalizing Dissent, LGBTQI Persecution, Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice
J. Wells Dixon

Senior Staff Attorney

Guantanamo U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy, International Law, Criminal Law
Chinyere Ezie

Staff Attorney

Corporate Human Rights Abuses, LGBTQI Persecution, Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
Omar Farah

Senior Staff Attorney

Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, Guantanamo, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice
Katherine Gallagher

Senior Staff Attorney

Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Palestinian Solidarity, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism International Criminal and Human Rights Law, Alien Tort Statute
Angelo Guisado

Staff Attorney

Abusive Immigration Practices, Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, Racial Injustice
Ian Head

Senior Legal Worker

Abusive Immigration Practices, Criminalizing Dissent, Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, Mass Incarceration, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice
Aliya Hana Hussain

Advocacy Program Manager

Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Guantanamo, Muslim Profiling, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism UN and IACHR Advocacy
Shayana Kadidal

Senior Managing Attorney

Government Surveillance, Guantanamo Counterterrorism Policy, First Amendment, Material Support
Pardiss Kebriaei

Senior Staff Attorney

Drone Killings, Guantanamo Terrorism Prosecutions, Counterterrorism Policy, International Law
Maria LaHood

Deputy Legal Director

Palestinian Solidarity, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Rachel Meeropol

Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education

Criminalizing Dissent, Mass Incarceration, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice
Obi Nwabuzor

Events Associate
Afrika Owes

Administrative Associate
Ibraham Qatabi

Senior Legal Worker

Drone Killings, Guantanamo, Muslim Profiling, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism Yemen
Dominic Renfrey

Advocacy Program Manager

Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Palestinian Solidarity, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Aya Saed

Bertha Justice Fellow

Bertha Justice Institute, Guantanamo, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Ghita Schwarz

Senior Staff Attorney

Abusive Immigration Practices, Government Surveillance, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice
Lynette Nicole Seymour

Executive Associate
Diala Shamas

Staff Attorney

Abusive Immigration Practices, Government Surveillance, Muslim Profiling, Palestinian Solidarity, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Astha Sharma Pokharel

Bertha Justice Fellow

Abusive Immigration Practices, Bertha Justice Institute, Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Palestinian Solidarity
Pamela Spees

Senior Staff Attorney

LGBTQI Persecution, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism International Criminal and Human Rights Law, Alien Tort Statute
Brittany Thomas

Bertha Justice Fellow

Abusive Immigration Practices, Bertha Justice Institute, Discriminatory Policing, Racial Injustice
Leah Todd

Senior Legal Worker

Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Criminalizing Dissent, Palestinian Solidarity, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism
Nahal Zamani

Advocacy Program Manager

Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, LGBTQI Persecution, Mass Incarceration, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice UN and IACHR Advocacy