Below are selected professional associations and non-governmental organizations that I work with or have worked with over the years.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

  • Member, Board on Children, Youth, and Families (2017-Present)

  • Member, Committee on the Biological and Psychosocial Effects of Peer Victimization: Lessons for Bullying Prevention (2015-2016)

  • Member, Planning Committee on Increasing Capacity for Reducing Bullying and Its Impact on the Lifecourse of Youth Involved (2014)

  • Member, Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States (2012-2013)

 Association of American Law Schools

  • Executive Committee Member, Section on Children and the Law (2011-Present)

  • Executive Committee Member, Section on International Human Rights (2011-Present)

  • Chair, Section on International Human Rights (2015-2016)

  • Chair-Elect, Section on International Human Rights (2014-2015)

  • Chair, Section on Children and the Law (2013-2014)

  • Secretary, Section on International Human Rights (2013-2014)

  • Chair-Elect, Section on Children and the Law (2012-2013)

  • Treasurer, Section on International Human Rights (2012-2013)

 Uniform Law Commission (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws)

  • Member, Study Committee on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking (2010-2011)

American Society of International Law

  • Member, Editorial Committee, ASIL Benchbook (2014-2015)

  • Member, Host Committee, 2012 Mid-Year Meeting (2012)

American Bar Association

  • Section of International Law Liaison, ABA Health Law Coordinating Group (2013-2014)

  • Senior Advisor, International Life Sciences and Health Law Committee (2010-2014)

  • Member, ABA Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law (2008-2011)

  • Co-Chair, Task Force on the Rule of Law and Health, Section of International Law (2007-2010)

  • Vice-Chair, International Human Rights Committee, Section of International Law (2002-2008)

  • Senior Advisor, International Health Law Committee, Section of International Law (2007-2008)

  • Chair, International Health Law Committee, Section of International Law (2004-2007)

  • Chair, Subcommittee on the Rights of the Child, Section of International Law (2005-2007)

  • Member, ABA Health Law Coordinating Group (2004-2008)

  • Co-Chair, Subcommittee on the Rights of the Child, Section of International Law (2002-2005)

  • Vice-Chair, International Health Law Committee, Section of International Law (2003-2004)

  • Member, ABA Delegation to the United Nations Special Session on Children (2002)

New York State Bar Association

  • Member, Committee on Children and the Law (2002-2003)

SELECTED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina

  • Member, Executive Leadership Board (2020-Present)

Institute on Healthcare and Human Trafficking, Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

  •  Member, Community Advisory Board (2017-Present)

Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network

ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking)

United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking

  • Researcher, REACH Initiative (2009-2010)

JOURNALS:

International Journal of Children’s Rights

International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy, and Practice

Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime and Security

 BMC International Health and Human Rights

Journal of Legal Medicine

  • Member, Board of Editors (2019-2021)