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For eight years, Sara was the director of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, a program that brought together individuals from a broad spectrum of countries to share experiences in ending conflict, establishing peace, and building civil society. Sara’s work with political and community leaders has had a particular focus on issues of civil rights and peace in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Israel and Palestine. She served as the executive director of American Friends of Ratz / Meretz (the Israeli Civil Rights and Peace Movement) and worked for organizations that include the Committee to Protect Journalists, B’Tselem (the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), and the Israeli-Palestinian Human Rights Committee. Sara holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an M.A. in International Affairs, with a specialization in Human Rights and International Law, from Columbia University.

Andre was previously associate director of New Program Development, Logistics and Operations in the Global Experience Office at Northeastern University. Prior to that, he served as assistant director of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy, where he developed and managed a range of international programs and initiatives for the University of Georgia School of Law. He also has experience working overseas, primarily in China and Europe, as well as at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where he worked for both Conference Services and as a legal intern in the Office of Legal Affairs. From 2011-2013, Andre was in charge of an educational media startup in Atlanta, GA. Andre speaks fluent French, and holds a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law.

Emily Kohn is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. During her 1L summer, she interned at the Department of Justice’s National Courts section, where she explored her interest in litigating international trade cases. She spent her 2L January term in Stockholm conducting an independent clinical at the American Chamber of Commerce in Sweden with a Cravath Fellowship. Emily split her 2L summer interning at both Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., and the Office of the Legal Counselor at the U.S. Embassy The Hague. On campus, she is the editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal.

Sophia Kontos is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She worked at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law on cultural heritage law her 1L summer as a Chayes Fellow. During her 2L January term, she was a Cravath Fellow working at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. This past summer, she worked at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City. At HLS, Sophia is an advanced clinical student in the Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic, a research assistant for Professor Naz Modirzadeh, and the alumni chair for Harvard International Law Journal.