STAFF
Richard Falk, Director
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He currently serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. Professor Falk is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books and numerous essays. He is Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the World Federalist Institute, the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, and the Advisory Board for the American Movement for World Government.
Hilal Elver, co-Director
Hilal Elver is a Research Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was appointed by the Turkish government as the founding legal advisor of the Ministry of Environment, then the General Director of Women Studies at the Office of the Prime Minister. Elver was appointed to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Chair in Environmental Diplomacy by UNEP at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta (1994-96). She was a Fulbright scholar at Michigan University School of law, and visiting fellow at Princeton University. She teaches comparative law, international human rights, and environmental law.
Jennifer Berry, Principal Research Associate
Jennifer's intellectual and activist foundation lies in Mendocino County, a rural, agricultural area with worldwide activist reach. Spending two years studying comparative religion and culture through Long Island University’s Friends World (now Global College) program, she study-traveled through Taiwan, Thailand, India, Turkey, Nepal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, and Ecuador. After completing a senior’s thesis on healing practices of indigenous groups in Peru, Jennifer earned her B.A. from LIU in 2003.
Plans are underway to study faith-based environmentalism in western cultures. To this end, Jennifer interned with The Pachamama Alliance, an NGO based in San Francisco, California. This group works to combine social responsibility and environmental sustainability in activism that is also spiritually fulfilling for the activists involved. Jennifer took part in producing their five day ‘Leadership Summit,’ which welcomed over one hundred activists and community leaders from around the globe.
Nicole Cerra, Research Assistant
Victor Faessel, Executive Administrative Officer
Cori Montgomery, Financial Manager
Mark Juergensmeyer, Director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies