Brian Con­can­non Jr., Esq., IJDH Director.

See Staff page for more.

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Paul Farmer, M.D. PhD, founder of Part­ners in Health, Pro­fes­sor at Har­vard Med­ical School, and Deputy UN Spe­cial Envoy to Haiti.

Dr. Farmer has spent much of the past 25 years in Haiti, but his cur­rent pri­mary res­i­dence is in Rwanda. Dr. Farmer changed the way the world treats infec­tious dis­eases among the poor by prov­ing that top qual­ity health­care can be pro­vided in resource-poor set­tings. Dr. Farmer brings unique and suc­cess­ful expe­ri­ence in imple­ment­ing pro­grams in Haiti and excel­lent rela­tion­ships with Hait­ian health offi­cials, the inter­na­tional health­care com­mu­nity, and major donors to Haiti. As Deputy Spe­cial Envoy, he has a unique abil­ity to advo­cate that the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity and Hait­ian gov­ern­ment imple­ment reforms sug­gested by HHRPP’s expe­ri­ence. Dr. Farmer is a MacArthur Foun­da­tion “Genius Award” winner.

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Laura Flynn, is a self-employed author, teacher, and activist.

Ms. Flynn lived in Haiti from 1994–1999 where she served as the for­mer direc­tor of inter­na­tional rela­tions for the Aris­tide Foun­da­tion for Democ­racy in Haiti. She co-founded the Bay Area Haiti Action Com­mit­tee. She has excel­lent rela­tion­ships with grass­roots lead­ers in Haiti and the U.S. Haiti advo­cacy community.

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Ira J. Kurzban, Esq., is an attor­ney with Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger & Tet­zeli, and Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Law at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami and Nova South­east­ern University.

He is one of the pre-eminent immi­gra­tion and refugee lawyers in the U.S., and has fought Hait­ian refugee cases for thirty years, some of them up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Attor­ney Kurzban was U.S. Gen­eral Coun­sel for the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment from 1991–2004. He has excel­lent rela­tions with the Hait­ian dias­pora com­mu­nity in South Florida and with for­mer and cur­rent Hait­ian gov­ern­ment officials.

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Bryan Steven­son, Esq., is the founder and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Equal Jus­tice Ini­tia­tive of Alabama and a Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor at NYU School of Law.

A grad­u­ate of East­ern Col­lege (now East­ern Uni­ver­sity), Har­vard Law School, and the Har­vard School of Gov­ern­ment, he is a co-recipient of the 2009 Gru­ber Prize for Jus­tice. He has won the Amer­i­can Bar Association’s Wis­dom Award for pub­lic ser­vice, the ACLU’s National Medal of Lib­erty (1991), a MacArthur Foun­da­tion “Genius” Award, the Reebok Human Rights Award (1989), the Thur­good Mar­shall Medal of Jus­tice (1993), the Gleits­man Foun­da­tion Cit­i­zen Activist Award (2000), the Olof Palme Prize (2000), and the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Pub­lic Inter­est Lawyers named him the Pub­lic Inter­est Lawyer of the Year (1996). He has received hon­orary degrees from the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia School of Law and George­town Uni­ver­sity Law School. In addi­tion to direct­ing the Equal Jus­tice Ini­tia­tive, Mr. Steven­son has been a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor of law at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan School of Law and lec­turer at Har­vard and Yale Law Schools.

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Irwin Stotzky, Esq., is a Pro­fes­sor of Law and Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Study of Human Rights at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami.

He has advised the Hait­ian and Argen­tine gov­ern­ments on tran­si­tional jus­tice issues, and rep­re­sented Hait­ian refugees in U.S. courts. Pro­fes­sor Stotzky has writ­ten books on tran­si­tional jus­tice in Haiti and Latin America.

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