Staff

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is composed of a diverse group of board members, full-time staff, and consultants. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, we work with experts in the fields of computer science, software development, mathematical and applied statistics, and demography.

Megan Price, PhD

Executive Director

Designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria.

Patrick Ball, PhD

Director of Research

More than twenty years of quantitative analysis for truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, international criminal tribunals, and United Nations missions.

Tarak Shah

Data Scientist

As HRDAG's data scientist, Tarak cleans, processes and builds models from data in order to understand evidence of human rights abuses.

Suzanne Nathans

Operations Coordinator

Over 20 years of experience in non-profit administration. The operations hub for HRDAG, supporting Megan and the rest of the team from the San Francisco office.

Maria Gargiulo

Statistician

Maria joined HRDAG as a statistician in 2020, and interned with the organization in 2018.

Kristen Yawitz

Foundation Relations and Strategy Lead

Kristen helps to refine HRDAG's fundraising, communications and strategy.

Advisory Board

As a nonprofit organization, our Advisory Board serves as our governing body. This board helps us to make decisions, keeps us on track with our mission and goals, and oversees the organization in legal and logistical matters.

Dinah PoKempner

As General Counsel at Human Rights Watch, Dinah guides HRDAG in decision-making and legal and logistical matters.

Frank Schulenburg

As executive director at the Wiki Education Foundation, Frank brings experience in nonprofit governance and organizational development.

Julie Broome

Chair

Julie brings to HRDAG executive experience from Ariadne, Sigrid Rausing Trust and CEELI Institute, among others.

Margot Gerritsen

Margot brings to HRDAG expertise in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes.

Michael Bear Kleinman

With experience in foundations such as Humanity United, Michael enjoys pondering difficult questions with HRDAG.

Science Advisory Committee

Our Science Committee advises and supports us in statistical theory and by reviewing our reports. With a broad range of backgrounds and expertise, these committee members offer HRDAG many years’ worth of experience and insight.

Fritz Scheuren

Fritz is Senior Fellow and Vice President of National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Center for Excellence in Survey Research, University of Chicago.

Jennifer Hoeting

Jennifer is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.

Louis-Paul Rivest

Louis-Paul is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Université Laval.

Nicholas Jewell

Nicholas is a professor of Biostatistics & Statistics at University of California, Berkeley.

Susan Hinkins

Susan is a Senior Statistician, Statistics and Methodology, National Opinion Research Center (NORC).

Emeritus Advisors

Audrey Chapman

Audrey is Professor of Community Medicine and Healthcare and the Healey Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, University of Connecticut.

David Banks

David is a Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University.

Kim Keller

Kim is Executive Director of the Keller Foundation.

Development and Outreach Consultants

Christine Grillo

Communications

Directs the organization’s message through a variety of online outlets and monitors the social media landscape around HRDAG.

David Peters

Consulting Designer

David advocates the use of design to advance positive social change.

Rachel Weintraub

Strategic Development Consultant

Rachel helps HRDAG structure and strengthen its major donor fundraising and board development efforts.

Consultants

Anita Gohdes

Anita is a professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Ann Harrison

Senior Science Writer

Ann documents HRDAG projects, some of which will appear in a forthcoming book.

Beatriz Vejarano

Field Consultant

Beatriz has consulted with HRDAG in Colombia since 2006.

Camille Fassett

Camille is the 2019 HRDAG Data Science Fellow.

Christopher Dukich

Research Assistant

Chris has worked on projects in Kosovo, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Syria at HRDAG.

Claudia Carolina López Taks

Field Consultant

Carolina does quantitative research at the AHPN.

Gus Brocchini

Junior Data Scientist, On-Boarding Manager

Gus is a Junior Data Scientist and On-Boarding Manager.

James Johndrow

Statistical Consultant

James has an active research program in Bayesian methods for analysis of contingency tables.

Kristian Lum, PhD

Lead Statistician

Kristian furthers HRDAG's statistical methodology, population estimation.

Michelle Dukich

Data Management Consultant

Michelle is a record linkage expert.

Robin Mejia

Statistician/Writer

Robin analyzed changes in death reporting over time during ongoing conflict.

Scott Weikart

Computer Engineering Consultant

Scott has done much data processing of datasets used by HRDAG projects.

Valentina Rozo Ángel

Valentina is the 2019 HRDAG Visiting Analyst.

Colleagues and Advisors

Agrima Bahl

Agrima is a Computer Engineer and consultant at HRDAG.

Amelia Hoover Green

Amelia is an associate professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University.

Andi Dixon

Andi’s work considers the use of data as evidence in the public policymaking process.

Beka Steorts

Beka uses advanced data-analysis techniques to arrive at definitive casualty counts.

Bing Wang

Bing is a Visiting Data Science Student until June 2020.

Daniel Guzmán

Daniel has provided expert statistical testimony in successful trials against war criminals in Guatemala.

Erin Lipman

Erin interned with HRDAG in the summer of 2018.

Gary Shapiro

Gary has been involved as Founder, Chair, Co-Chair, and Past Chair of Statistics Without Borders.

Jeff Klingner

Jeff designed and wrote a machine-learning software package for de-duplicating and merging lists.

Jule Krüger

Jule helped to complete a statistical expert review of the Kosovo Memory Book.

Kristen Cibelli Hibben

Kristen participated in data projects on Chad and Sierra Leone and co-authored the HRDAG report on Chad.

Laurel Eckhouse

Laurel is a faculty member at the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.

Miguel Cruz

Miguel established an offshore backup system for vulnerable Guatemalan human rights NGOs.

Miki Takacs

Miki has designed and developed systems that search, retrieve and structure human rights information.

Rafe Kaplan

Rafe joined forces with HRDAG at AAAS in Washington, D.C.

Romesh Silva

Romesh has co-authored reports on large-scale human rights violations in conflict zones.

Samuel Sinyangwe

A policy analyst and data scientist who works with communities of color to fight systemic racism.

Shemika Lamare

Shemika was the Fall 2018 Data Science Fellow at HRDAG.

Shira Mitchell

Shira studies the (un)fairness of algorithms used in the US criminal justice system.

Tamy Guberek

Tamy led HRDAG’s on-the-ground examination of Colombian data about conflict-related sexual violence.

Trina Reynolds-Tyler

Trina was the 2019 HRDAG Human Rights Intern.

William Isaac

William's research interests include Bayesian inference, experimental design, and natural language processing.