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Damion Davis
Damion Davis moved to the U.S. from Jamaica as a lawful permanent resident in 1989, when he was 11 years old. As a child, he lived in Staten Island, NY with his father, who naturalized to U.S. citizenship when Damion was 16. Damion now considers Pennsylvania, where everyone he loves lives, to be his home.…
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Chris G. Kennedy, Jr.
Christopher G. Kennedy, Jr. has 5 years of providing strategic, financial, and operational advisory expertise. He has experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, management buyouts, recapitalizations and restructurings for corporate clients and private equity investors. Kennedy’s transaction advisory experience involves both growth oriented companies and distressed companies through sell-side representations, buy-side management, corporate restructurings and…
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Nina Moraitou-Politzi
Nina Moraitou-Politzi is the Dale and James J. Pinto Legal Fellow with the International Advocacy and Litigation Team. Nina received her J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center with a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, graduating as a Public Interest Fellow and member of the Order of the Coif. She was also…
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Hailey Corkery
Hailey Corkery (she/her) is the Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow with the International Advocacy and Litigation Team at RFK Human Rights. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law. During law school, she worked with National Foundation for India and EarthRights International as a legal intern, with the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project as a student researcher,…
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Kavya Chaturvedi
Kavya Chaturvedi is the Weil Legal Innovator on the Compass Investors Team. Prior to RFK Human Rights, Kavya worked at Goldman Sachs as a Legal Analyst at the intersection of law and financial markets. Kavya graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor’s degree in Public and International Affairs. As an undergraduate student, Kavya explored her…
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Kristina Varganova
Kristina Varganova (she/her) is the Social Media Manager at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. As a member of the communications team, she manages organizational presence on all social media platforms, addressing challenges posed by misinformation and disinformation in today’s social media landscape. Kristina develops and curates content that emphasizes factual accuracy, leveraging platforms to disseminate…
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Martina Cavard Blanco
Martina Cavard Blanco is the Events Associate at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Martina works to coordinate logistical elements of a diverse range of events throughout the year, including: film screenings, receptions, domestic and international conferences, retreats, the NYC Marathon and Half Marathon, the annual Golf Tournament, Compass Investors Conferences, and the Ripple of Hope Gala. …
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Camila Pelsinger
Camila Pelsinger is a Program Manager at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, where she leads investor engagement strategy on human and civil rights issues, including work on decarceration, campaigns to end prison financing, and ethics in emerging technologies.
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Catalina Carbonell
Catalina (she/her) is the Donald M. and Susan N. Wilson Fellow with the International Litigation and Advocacy at RFK Human Rights. She holds a JD from Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to joining RFK Human Rights, Catalina was a staff attorney at the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, where she advocated for the…
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Ballina Prishtina
As a Board Relations Associate, Ballina is responsible to assist the CGO in drafting materials and agendas, support Senior Management with board and donor stewardship programs, collate and maintain CRM databases, organize scheduling needs within the board, and support event planning. Ballina grew up in Prishtina, Kosovo, and is currently based in New York. She…
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Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy founded Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in the months following her husband’s 1968 death. Her integral role in the organization’s growth and development over more than half a century is perhaps the most vivid example of her dedication to carrying out the couple’s shared commitment to service and social justice while raising their…
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Frank Baker
Frank Baker is a co-founder and managing partner of Siris Capital Group LLC, a middle market private equity firm focused on deep value, control equity investments around special situations in the telecom, technology and technology-enabled business service sectors. Prior to forming Siris, Baker was a managing director at Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a global private equity…
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