Our Team

Human Rights Institute Staff

Kathryn Libal
Director, Human Rights Institute
Interim Director of Dodd Human Rights Impact
Associate Professor, Social Work & Human Rights

Rachel Jackson
Associate Director of Operations
Human Rights Institute

Erica Laplante
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Human Rights Institute

Lee Reynolds
Special Assistant to the Vice President for Global Affairs

People listening to a lecture in the Dodd Center auditorium

Human Rights Summit Steering Committee

Senator Christopher J. Dodd

Shareen Hertel
Professor of Political Science and Human Rights

Rachel Jackson
Associate Director of Operations, Human Rights Institute

Erica Laplante
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Human Rights Institute

Kathryn Libal
Director, Human Rights Institute, Associate Professor, Social Work & Human Rights

Stephen Park
Director, Business & Human Rights Initiative; Associate Professor, Business Law

Lee Reynolds
Special Assistant to the Vice President for Global Affairs

Daniel Weiner
Vice President for Global Affairs

Richard Wilson
Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Law and Anthropology