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Mr. Blaha is currently a Senior Advisor for DAWN. He retired from the State Department in 2023 after a 32-year career. Before retiring, From from 2016 until 2023, he was Director of the Office of Security and Human Rights in the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Frederick Deknatel is the Executive Editor of DAWN's Democracy in Exile journal.
Patrick Connors has twenty years of experience managing communication campaigns for human rights.
Mohsen Farshneshani is a U.S. sanctions attorney working with the sanctions nomination initiative team at DAWN.
Yael Krifcher is a Research Intern at DAWN. She has experience advocating for human rights in Palestine, and supporting humanitarian aid delivery for refugee and migrant communities around the world.
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man is DAWN's Director of Research for Israel-Palestine.
Sevan is currently a Students for Justice in Palestine's member seeking to expose Palestinian human rights violations.
Ale Uchitelle is a legal intern at DAWN. A law student at Saint Louis University, she is a founding member of SLU's National Lawyers Guild student chapter.
Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, and the Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School.
Mongi Dhaouadi was born and raised in Tunisia and moved to the US when he was 19 years old to study Electrical Engineering.
Michele Alexander is a long-standing nonprofit executive with more than 25 years of executive management experience.
Louis Bickford has been working in the field of international human rights for over 20 years.
Reed Brody is an American lawyer with decades of experience in international litigation and advocacy.
Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 in recognition for her non-violent struggle for democracy and her advocacy for women's rights in Yemen.
Nihad Awad is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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