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TEACHING AND MENTORING

COURSES

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses including International Human Rights Law, Law and Human Rights, Human Rights and Technology, International Law, Comparative Law, Public Law, Violence and Institutions, Concept of Justice, Global Democracy and Social Justice, Global Perspectives on Democracy, Development Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, U.S. Government, and U.S. Constitution.

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AWARDS

In recognition of my innovative teaching, I received an award for "outstanding teaching" from American University. I received a letter of commendation from the provost and was nominated for the University Teaching Excellence Award at George Mason University. I was twice awarded a fellowship and grant for teaching innovation from the College of William & Mary University Teaching and Learning Project.

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REAL-WORLD INTERVENTIONS

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208 of my students have published their research as part of my engaged pedagogy, publishing in leading fora including Harvard Law School's Harvard Human Rights Journal Online, Wilson Center, University of Oxford Faculty of Law's Oxford Human Rights Hub, Oxford University Politics Blog, E-International Relations, Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society (indexed in Google Scholar), Devex's Inside Development, UNICEF's Voices of Youth, and The Washington Times, among others.

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7 human rights reports have been authored by my students making real-world interventions. The reports have been cited by the UN Human Rights Council and Australian Human Rights Commission.

  1. Report on democratic control of AI cited 5 times by the Australian Human Rights Commission in its report on human rights and technology.

  2. Report on AI and privacy cited 3 times in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/46/37).

  3. Report on right to housing cited 2 times in UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/56/61/Add.3).

  4. Report on the human right to reparations submitted to the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent for their report to the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council on "Provisions and Pathways to Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent."

  5. Report on digital technologies in the administration of justice submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN Secretary-General's report to the UN General Assembly  (UNGA), pursuant to UNGA resolution A/RES/77/219.

  6. Report on the centrality of care and support for ongoing COVID-19 impacts submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the UN expert workshop and UN High Commissioner's report to the Human Rights Council (HRC), pursuant to HRC resolution 54/6.

  7. Report on violence against women submitted to UN special rapporteur on violence against women.​​

  8. Forthcoming: Ending Disinformation in Election Campaigns, a report to the UN Human Rights Council on how innovations in democratic practices can help stop the rapid growth of disinformation in election campaigns.

  9. Forthcoming: Report for the UN General Assembly on the role of tech in fomenting conflict mineral violence.

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