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CHR Membership

Chair
Sidney Verba
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Vice Chair
Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
University of Costa Rica
Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica

Members
George J. Annas
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Felton Earls
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts

John G. Kassakian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Leland Hartwell
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

 


Michael Katz
March of Dimes Foundation
White Plains, New York

Anthony Leggett
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois

Fawwaz Ulaby
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tilahun Yilma
University of California, Davis
Davis, California

In addition to the 10 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.