Chair
Sidney Verba
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Members
George J. Annas
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Felton Earls
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts
Sandral Hullett
Cooper Green Hospital
Birmingham, Alabama
Yuet Wai Kan
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
John G. Kassakian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Vice Chair
Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
University of Costa Rica
Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica
Michael Katz
March of Dimes Foundation
White Plains, New York
Andrew Sessler
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California
Fawwaz Ulaby
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan Tilahun Yilma
University of California, Davis
Davis, California |
In addition to the 15 members of the Human rights Committee, more than 1,600 members of the NAS, NAE, and IOM are volunteers who bring their personal prestige to bear. The CHR’s Action Alerts (usually one a month) are sent to these volunteer “correspondents” and they then take individual action on the cases, particularly those cases for which they believe their personal appeals will have, perhaps, a special or uniquely positive influence. Once these individuals are identified, the CHR particularly works with them to discuss and develop or refine effective strategies that might gain the prisoner’s release or, at least, improved conditions of confinement.
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