Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) welcomes its newly elected officers to its Board of Directors.
Ann Burroughs, President & CEO of the Japanese American National Museum and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, was elected as Chair of the Board. Callie Moore, a research software engineer at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, who has been an activist and leader with AIUSA since 2014, was elected Vice Chair.
Burroughs previously served as Amnesty International’s Global Assembly Chair for three years and before that for six years on the AIUSA Board, four of which as Chair. She is a former Prisoner of Conscience who was jailed for her opposition to apartheid in South Africa and she credits Amnesty International for helping to secure her release after nearly five months in prison.
“The US plays a central role in almost every important human rights debate but never more so than today as we face the damage wrought on international human rights protections and standards, the global roll-back of rights, the unparalleled destruction of the armed conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and elsewhere, and the racial hatred and divisiveness at home,” said Burroughs. “A re-centering of human rights in domestic and international policy is imperative, making the work of AIUSA supremely important and consequential. It has been a privilege to serve Amnesty and the broader human rights movement and I am proud to do so again.”
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