Steve Daigneault - Steve Daigneault has been the Managing Director for Internet Communications at Amnesty International USA since May 2006. He directs all of AIUSA's online work including strategy, messaging, technology, and tactics. He has worked for progressive advocacy organizations either directly or as a consultant for 15 years.
His past employers and clients include: the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Audubon Society, US Fund for UNICEF, the Opportunity Agenda, the Aspen Institute and the United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
Emma Daly - Emma Daly has been Communications Director at Human Rights Watch since July 2007, and worked as Press Director from November 2005. Before joining Human Rights Watch she spent 18 years as a journalist, mostly as a foreign correspondent, working for the New York Times, the Independent, Newsweek, the Observer and Reuters, among others.
She has contributed to several books including Secrets of the Press the Penguin Book of Journalism" and Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know.
Jacquelline Fuller - Jacquelline Fuller joined Google.org in April 2007 as Director of Advocacy and Communications. She oversees advocacy and communications for Google.org and Google Inc.'s environmental initiatives.
Fuller previously served as Deputy Director of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was a member of the senior management team guiding efforts to influence public policy on behalf of Gates Foundation issues and grantees. In 2004-2005, Fuller and her family moved to Delhi, India where she helped to launch a $300 million HIV prevention initiative known as Avahan.
Fuller received her BA in political science from UCLA and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She serves on the Board of the Harvey Fellows and International Justice Mission. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and currently resides in Orinda, California.
Jay Harris - Jay Harris is the publisher of Mother Jones Magazine.
Previously he was general manager of Newsweek's Pacific edition, based in Hong Kong; publisher of Travel & Leisure/Asia; and director of international special projects for Newsweek International. He is a member of the board of IMAG, the independent magazine group of the Magazine Publishers Association, a board member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a member of the Social Venture Network.
Jonathan Hutson - Jonathan Hutson, Chief Communications Officer at Physicians for Human Rights, has a strong track record creating traditional and new media strategies for national organizations during dynamic periods of growth. Beginning his career as a muckraking investigative journalist, Jonathan developed a passion for organizing and blogging on issues of social justice and environmental health. Prior to joining PHR, Jonathan created and led Dialogues Online: Racial Healing in Your Hometown, a public/private partnership between America Online and the Western Justice Center Foundation.
He then served as Communications Director for Public Justice, a national public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., and for Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute. His latest project for PHR is DarfuriWomen.org, which lets users view first-hand narratives from refugee women and send them a reply.
Brett Solomon - Brett Solomon is Campaign Director for Australia at Avaaz.org, a global grassroots web movement that seeks to have an impact on global politics. Solomon completed a law degree at the University of Sydney, promoted the first International Youth Parliament and has worked for Community Aid Abroad and Amnesty International Australia.
He served as Executive Director of GetUp!, an online activist community established in 2005.
Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.
The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley is pleased to showcase these recent developments and push new frontiers of applied research.
I wonder how does Google’s presentation fit into overall theme of human rights? It is amazing how they are able to show up everywhere and promote their innovative tools which will help public understand their 700$ electricity bills and make Google lots of money on the way.
