Harpinder Athwal Collacott is based in the United Kingdom, where she heads the communications and campaign divisions for a non-governmental organization. She has extensive experience in international justice and human rights, having served with the Special Court for Sierra Leone until 2006 as the Prosecutor’s Political Advisor and Special Assistant, and with a major international human rights philanthropic organization.
Pin also has worked as a human rights and foreign affairs researcher for Liberal Democratic Members of the House of Commons and the European Parliament, as well as as a public affairs consultant. In 2001, she ran as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the House of Commons. She is author of book chapters and articles on international justice and human rights issues. Pin graduated from Cambridge University with an Honours in History and Education, and from the London School of Economics with a Masters in International Relations.
Chris Larson is Associate Director of Biology at a biotechnology company in California. He provides molecular and cellular biology expertise for drug discovery and development efforts and serves as the project leader for several drug discovery teams. He has held positions at several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and led the team that discovered KC706, which completed multiple Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, and pemphigus vulgaris.
Chris has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications, book chapters, and patents, and he has been an invited speaker at scientific conferences. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University, and completed postdoctoral training in molecular oncology at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He also has mentored a number of undergraduate and doctoral research dissertations, and currently serves as a mentor for the Biotechnology Institute’s Minority Fellows Program.
Midwest McGarry has worked in foreign policy for over twenty years, and brings considerable expertise on a range of issues — including quite a few that I know almost nothing about (not that that has prevented me from talking about them). He loves baseball, John Mellencamp, the Blues Brothers, West Wing, Jon Stewart, Black Adder, Top Gear, Chicago (the city, not the band), Willie Nelson, NPR, BBC, WKRP, Cape Town, Marshall McLuhan, old scotch, cigars, and cheese.
His real life heroes are Nelson Mandela and Ron Santo. His fictional heroes are Leo McGarry [editor's note: dur] and Atticus Finch. He believes that greater global security is the surest path to lasting American security. And while he believes Midwesterners are the hardest working people in show business the nation, he is appalled by divisive talk about who among us are “real” Americans.
Annie Oakley has spent a good part of her career as a counselor, advocate, consultant, and board member for disability rights organizations. She has worked closely with local governmental bodies to ensure compliance with ADA-mandated accessibility laws. She has has worked for NGOs providing horse-centric therapeutic work for children with mental and physical challenges. Annie likes to say that she falls into every subgroup and contradictory sub-sub-group of society. She is a card-carrying-AARP-member, mixed-race, disabled, happily married lesbian grandmother. Her approach to foreign policy issues is thus experiential, with a particular focus on human rights.
Annie’s passions include her wife, horses, geology, roses, books, photography, and chocolate. The most fun she ever had was translating technical manuals from Geek to English for a Silicon Valley engineer, and then seeing her work translated into Japanese and subsequently back into English. As a result, she knows exactly why some folks find it so hard to hook up a DVD player. She’ll try to make her posts at least somewhat more readable.
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