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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

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Board members and advisers

Scott Allen is a private investor. For 22 years, Mr Allen was engaged in international capital markets working in New York, Tokyo and London. He left JP Morgan Chase's securities group in London at the end of 2004 as a managing director in charge of structured credit sales in Europe and the Middle East. Mr Allen is a graduate of Georgetown University's Master of Science in Foreign Service and obtained his undergraduate degree from Sophia University, Tokyo. He is married with two daughters.

Teresa Crawford has been with The Advocacy Project since it was founded in 1998. She worked on the first Advocacy Project undertaking in Rome at the UN treaty conference for the international criminal court. The AP Technical Director since 2000 she has been involved in numerous projects including becoming one of the founders of IPKO, the first post-war ISP in Kosovo. Teresa is a leader in the Global eRider movement which is spreading the model of highly personalized non profit technology assistance. Currently Teresa is managing the Roma Information Project which is a 7 country intiative aimed at improving the information and information technology capacity of Roma civil society organizations.

Her Excellency Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein. Claudia is the resident Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United States in Washington, D.C. She has occupied this position since October 2002. Between 1970 and 1974, Claudia was the personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Dr. Alfred Hilbe. In 1978, she became a Diplomatic Officer in the Office of Foreign Affairs. During the 1980s, she served consecutively as the Second Deputy of the Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, then as First Secretary and intermittent Chargé d’Affairs in Switzerland, and later as First Secretary of the Embassy of Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria. In 1990, Claudia was selected by His Serene Highness Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein as Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, an appointment she held until her transfer to Washington in 2002.

Iain Guest is the Executive Director of The Advocacy Project.

Dr Susan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration at Georgetown University and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr Martin is also Director of the Certificate Program on Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Previously Dr Martin served as the Executive Director of the US Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the President on US immigration and refugee policy.  Her publications include the World Migration Report: 2000 (ed.), Refugee Women, The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration, Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America (ed.), and numerous monographs and articles on immigration and refugee policy. She is also the principal author of the 2004 World Survey on Women and Development: Women and Migration, produced for the United Nations. She earned her MA and PhD in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in History from Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Adviser

Barbara Ayotte, Physicians for Human Rights. Barbara has developed and managed communications and advocacy strategies for the international human rights organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) for the past 15 years and, as Director of Communications, is a member of the senior management team. She manages international and national media relations, website development, and oversees production of all reports and printed materials. PHR is one of the founders of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. Barbara managed communications and media relations for the ICBL at the Nobel ceremonies in Oslo and at the Mine Ban Treaty signing ceremonies in Ottawa. She has written and edited dozens of articles and reports on health and human rights. Barbara has traveled extensively in the Balkans and has developed photodocumentary exhibits on Kosovo and Bosnia that have been displayed at galleries and universities across the country. She is a graduate of Boston College, receiving a BA in English in 1986.

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