Domain Manager
Justice and Human Rights Organizations

617.496.0014
johanna_kreilick@hks.harvard.edu

Johanna Chao Kreilick manages the Justice and Human Rights domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.

Johanna’s previous work in justice and human rights ranges from local community organizing, to research-to-action policy projects, to international program development. Before coming to the Hauser Center, Johanna launched and managed a program in economic justice for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, an international human rights organization linking members, NGOs, and civil society partners in 62 countries around the globe. In this role, Johanna developed partnerships with civil society groups including worker centers organizing in Northwest Arkansas, to national networks of Kenyan street vendors, to think-tanks conducting research and analysis on emerging labor policy in China. Johanna is a trained mediator and seasoned facilitator of multi-stakeholder processes. She serves on numerous non-profit boards.

Johanna earned a BA in Anthropology from Stanford University and a Masters in Public Administration from HKS where she was named a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow in 2005.

Rahim Kanani

Research Associate
Justice and Human Rights Organizations

617.460.9238
rahim_kanani@hks.harvard.edu

Rahim Kanani is a Research Associate for the Justice and Human Rights domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He is also pursuing his second master’s degree in religion, ethics and politics at Harvard Divinity School, where he focuses on Islamic studies and international security policy. Mr. Kanani is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and has also been published in the Ottawa Citizen, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the International Herald Tribune/New York Times. Most recently, he has been selected to serve as the Harvard University Campus Representative to the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI-U) for the 2010/2011 academic year.

Mr. Kanani has previously worked with Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard School of Public Health’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard’s Pluralism Project, Amnesty International’s USA Headquarters, the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York, the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) in the Dominican Republic, and for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture in Vienna. He has also served on the Harvard-wide Student Advisory Board of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Mr. Kanani holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Science in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His personal website can be found at www.rahimkanani.com.

Carolina Larriera

Mid-Career Fellow
Justice and Human Rights Organizations

carolina_larriera@hks10.harvard.edu

Carolina Larriera is a mid-career fellow for the Justice and Human Rights domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.

She brings the experience of NGOs, government, and United Nations work. Before joining the Hauser Center and Harvard she was working with South-South cooperation, looking into how the government of Brazil implements its domestic lessons learned and develops stronger ties not only in its geographic region, but with Portuguese speaking countries in Africa and Asia, especially Timor-Leste. Before that she opened and ran the Regional Office for Latin America of DNDi, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, a Swiss scientific NGO which is an offspring of Medecins Sans Frontieres, launching the organization’s first anti-malaria drug. For seven years she served with the United Nations in New York and in post-conflict situations, during the 3-year transition which led to the establishment of Timor-Leste as as independent nation, and the 2003 political mission to Iraq. She was also a professor at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica and IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.