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February 02, 2021
Jay Carney, Sarah Cleveland, Benedict Morelli, Nazanin Rafsanjani, and Mara Frankel Wallace Join Human Rights First Board
WASHINGTON – Human Rights First today announced the addition of five new members to its board of directors: Jay Carney, Sarah Cleveland, Benedict Morelli, Nazanin Rafsanjani, and Mara Frankel Wallace.
“We are thrilled to welcome such distinguished colleagues to the board of Human Rights First, given the urgency and importance of the organization’s mission advancing human rights and justice in the U.S. and around the world,” said
Human Rights First’s board co-chair Mona Sutphen.
Michael Rozen, co-chair of the board of Human Rights First added, “The expertise these new board members bring from media, law, policy, and nonprofit management will add to the depth and quality of the organization’s already strong work. We very much look forward to their contributions.”
Illustration by Tim Robinson.
When Donald Trump took office in 2017, he installed a number of pro-business appointees to lead federal agencies tasked with protecting workers’ rights. But for the first two years of his administration, things continued more or less as normal at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the country’s sole workplace civil rights watchdog. Ami Sanghvi, now a lawyer at the Marek Law Firm, started as a trial attorney at the EEOC just after Barack Obama became president. Yet even during Trump’s first two years, she said, the agency was able “to do pretty great work.”1
Then, in May 2019, corporate lawyer Janet Dhillon was sworn in as Trump’s choice for the EEOC’s chair, and Sanghvi soon found the kinds of cases she could pursue restricted. It’s part of why she decided to leave the commission and go into private practice in January 2020.2