• Coordinated national coalitions of housing advocates in utilizing multiple UN human rights mechanisms for domestic policy goals, including coordinating site visits of UN monitors, drafting joint reports to UN bodies, presenting testimony to U.N. and U.S. government officials, conducting media outreach, and working with government officials on follow up.• Coordinated and led national and regional trainings on the human right to housing, housing rights of domestic violence survivors, and homeless youth educational rights including devising training programs, recruiting panelists, handling site logistics, publicity and media outreach, developing training materials, and coordinating rallies with local activists.• Provided litigation direction and technical assistance to local advocates and pro bono firm partners, setting important legal precedents and achieving settlements affecting tens of thousands of homeless students.• Drafted and advocated for legislative policy at local, state, and national levels.• Coordinated Housing Caucus and chaired Training Committee of the US Human Rights Network.• Served on steering committees of the Human Rights at Home Campaign, CERD Task Force, and UPR Planning Committee, and advisory board of Local Human Rights Lawyering Project.• Drafted annual program plan including strategic direction and operating budget.• Drafted grant applications and reports, growing human rights program from annual budget of $25,000 to over $150,000.• Created national pro bono network for helping homeless students, assisting dozens of students each year and providing over $250,000 of donated pro bono services.• Supervised 1-4 attorneys and legal interns as well as multiple pro bono attorneys on various projects.• Drafted and edited numerous reports and articles, including a chapter in Bringing Human Rights Home, which was awarded the 2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award.

Teaching International Human Rights Advocacy & Practice

• Edited handbook and provided strategic advice for the Local Human Rights Lawyering Project.

• Provided strategic consulting to Center for Community Alternatives, Haywood Burns Institute, Justice Policy Institute on methods and partners for using human rights framework in juvenile justice issues.

• Researched and coordinated consultation on institutionalizing human rights treaty implementation.• Researched and drafted petition brief on Juvenile Life Without Parole for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.• Coordinated coalition shadow reporting and related events to the Human Rights Committee.• Produced multiple articles on human rights in the U.S. for ushumanrightsonline.net.

• Trained, provided technical legal assistance to, and coordinated work between partner organizations in integrating international human rights into domestic social justice campaigns.• Coordinated over 140 organizations in reporting to and presenting before the Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture, in New York and Geneva, and public events around those meetings.• Drafted annual operating plan including strategic direction and operating budget.• Drafted grant applications and reports.

• Coordinated conference of U.S. human rights trainers.• Coordinated and edited second edition of Something Inside So Strong, a human rights resource manual.• Produced a two-year program of trainings for the Network’s members.• Helped design and coordinate training programming for bi-annual meeting and for post-Katrina human rights of internally-displaced persons training conference.