Staff

March 30, 2015

Meet the CCR staff. Our Legal, Advocacy, and Communications staff are responsible for CCR’s programmatic work. Our Development and Operations 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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Executive

Legal

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  • Baher Azmy
    Baher Azmy
    Legal Director

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

  • Lupe Aguirre
    Lupe Aguirre
    Bertha Justice Fellow

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

  • Darius Charney
    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
    J. Wells Dixon
    Senior Staff Attorney

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

  • Chinyere Ezie
    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
    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
    Angelo Guisado
    Staff Attorney

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

  • Ian Head
    Ian Head
    Senior Legal Worker

    Abusive Immigration Practices, Criminalizing Dissent, Discriminatory Policing, Government Surveillance, Mass Incarceration, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Policing, Prisons

  • 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
    Maria LaHood
    Deputy Legal Director

    Palestinian Solidarity, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism

  • Rachel Meeropol
    Rachel Meeropol
    Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education

    Criminalizing Dissent, Mass Incarceration, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice

  • Afrika Owes
    Administrative Associate

  • Ibraham Qatabi
    Ibraham Qatabi
    Senior Legal Worker

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

  • Aya Saed
    Aya Saed
    Bertha Justice Fellow

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

  • Ghita Schwarz
    Ghita Schwarz
    Senior Staff Attorney

    Abusive Immigration Practices, Government Surveillance, Muslim Profiling, Racial Injustice

  • Diala Shamas
    Diala Shamas
    Staff Attorney

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

  • Astha Sharma Pokharel
    Astha Sharma Pokharel
    Bertha Justice Fellow

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

  • Pamela Spees
    Senior Staff Attorney

    Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Criminalizing Dissent, LGBTQI Persecution, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism, International Criminal and Human Rights Law, Alien Tort Statute

  • Brittany Thomas
    Brittany Thomas
    Bertha Justice Fellow

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

  • Leah Todd
    Leah Todd
    Senior Legal Worker

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

Advocacy

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  • Nadia Ben-Youssef
    Advocacy Director

    Abusive Immigration Practices, Corporate Human Rights Abuses, Criminalizing Dissent, Discriminatory Policing, Mass Incarceration, Palestinian Solidarity, Racial Injustice, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism, Advocacy before UN, EU, and Congressional bodies

  • 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

  • Obi Nwabuzor
    Obi Nwabuzor
    Events Associate

  • Dominic Renfrey
    Dominic Renfrey
    Advocacy Program Manager

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

  • Nahal Zamani
    Nahal Zamani
    Advocacy Program Manager

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

Communications

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Development

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Operations

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January 11, 2019