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.

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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 thirty 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
More than 25 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.

Michelle Dukich

Data Processing & Record Linkage
Michelle is HRDAG's record linkage expert responsible for data cleaning, canonicalization, and matching.

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.

Alex Hanna

Alex brings to HRDAG expertise in computational technologies and how they exacerbate inequality.
Cynthia Conti-Cook

Cynthia Conti-Cook

Cynthia brings to HRDAG knowledge of and experience in state force, law and digital technology.
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Dorothy Chou

Dorothy brings to HRDAG unique perspectives on building and governing AI systems in sensitive domains.

Elizabeth Eagen

Elizabeth brings leadership experience to HRDAG, with knowledge of emergent technologies in evidence and advocacy.

Paul Wesson

Paul brings to HRDAG expertise in population size estimation.

Development and Outreach Consultants

Christine Grillo

Communications

David Peters

Consulting Designer
David Weir

David Weir

Editorial consultant

Consultants

Ayyub Ibrahim

Data scientist

Corinne Hess

Human Rights Intern 2026

Larissa Arreola Moreno

Statistics & Human Rights Fellow 2026

Larry Barrett

Human Rights & Data Science Intern 2021-2022

Maria Gargiulo

Intern 2018

María Juliana Durán Fedullo

Visiting Scholar 2022-2023.

Paula Amado

Research Scholar 2022-2023

Sam Zhang

Data Science & Human Rights Fellow 2022

Valentina Rozo Ángel

Visiting Analyst 2019

Vernard Martin

Systems Administrator
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Will Taylor

Data Science Fellow 2025

Colleagues and Advisers

Alanna Flores

Data Science Fellow 2024

Amelia Hoover Green

Research Fellow 2007-2008

Bing Wang

Visiting Data Science Student 2019-2020

Gus Brocchini

Junior Data Scientist & On-Boarding Manager 2018

Sajel Galhotra

Data Science & Human Rights Intern 2022

Shemika Lamare

Data Science Fellow 2018

Sierra Wells

Data Science & Human Rights Intern 2022

trina reynolds-tyler

Human Rights Intern 2019

Emeritus Advisers

Audrey Chapman

Advisory Board 2013-2014
Advisory Board 2013-2014

David Banks

Advisory Board Chair 2013-2018
Advisory Board Chair 2013-2018

Frank Schulenburg

Advisory Board 2016 - 2020
Advisory Board 2016 - 2020

Fritz Scheuren

Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021

Jennifer Hoeting

Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021

Kim Keller

Advisory Board 2014-2015
Advisory Board 2014-2015

Louis-Paul Rivest

Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
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Margot Gerritsen

Advisory Board 2019 - 2022
Advisory Board 2019 - 2022

Michael Bear Kleinman

Advisory Board 2015 - 2021
Advisory Board 2015 - 2021

Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Advisory Board 2022 - 2025
Advisory Board 2022 - 2025

Nicholas Jewell

Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021

Susan Hinkins

Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
Scientific Advisory Committee 2013-2021
William Isaac, 2020

William Isaac

Advisory Board 2021 - 2025
Advisory Board 2021 - 2025

Our work has been used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations. We have worked with partners on projects on five continents.

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