Faculty

Daryn has expertise in the area of cross-cultural trauma psychiatry, having spent more than a decade dedicated to providing a combination of administrative and clinical services in trauma mental health locally and internationally. He is on the List of Experts for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and for the United Nations’ International Criminal Court. 

Lisa is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and member of the Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health program at Stanford University School of Medicine and Professor and Director of the Peace and Human Rights Lab at Palo Alto University. Her clinical and research focus is on trauma, resilience, human rights, refugees, and aging.

Jessie is proud to serve as Associate Director of Strategy and Program Development at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University. She is also the Center’s Director of Human Trafficking Research. In these roles, Jessie contributes to overall vision and strategy, and leads several of the Center's core research collaborations related to labor exploitation. Jessie is currently working on several multidisciplinary, community-engaged research projects.

Pantea is a core faculty member of the Lab, specializing in the human & civil rights of women & children, refugees, and racialized minorities, working to advance trauma-informed justice mechanisms. 

Beth recently served as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (GCJ) in the U.S. State Department. Prior to returning to public service, she was the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School, where she taught international criminal law, human rights, human trafficking, and a policy lab on Legal & Policy Tools for Preventing Atrocities. 

Ryan is a child clinical psychologist who serves as Director of Community Programs for Stanford’s Early Life Stress and Resilience Program, and is a faculty member in Stanford's Human Rights and Trauma Mental Health Program. His clinical and research efforts focus on understanding and addressing the impact of stress, adversity, and trauma in children, families, and communities. 

Penelope is a human rights lawyer who has worked closely with founding Director, David Cohen, for nearly two decades to shape Stanford's Center for Human Rights and International Justice into the vibrant academic and research community it is today. She first joined (what was then known as the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center) in 2006 as a trial monitor working in Sierra Leone and Cambodia, and was hired full time in 2008 to oversee several key initiatives in Southeast Asia, West Africa, Europe, and the United States.

David is a leading expert in the fields of human rights, international law and transitional justice, as well as one of the world's leading social and legal historians of ancient Greece. Cohen taught at UC Berkeley from 1979-2012 as the Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities, and served as the founding Director of the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, which moved to Stanford in 2013 and became the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. 

Rebecca holds memberships in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and currently serves as Director of Postgraduate Fellowships in the Department of Emergency Medicine.