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Gulika Reddy, who will be joining us virtually, is a human rights advocate, and the Director of the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School. Reddy has conducted human rights advocacy around the world, including in India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Liberia, Uganda, Yemen, the Central African Republic, and Papua New Guinea. Her work has focused on inequality, discrimination, armed conflict, and peacebuilding. Her academic research interests include critical perspectives on human rights, decolonial and anti-racist pedagogy, and the intersection between human rights and peacebuilding.
Prior to joining Stanford, Reddy was the Acting Director of the Human Rights Clinic and Co-Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. Before joining Columbia Law School, Reddy worked with lawyers, non-profits, and academic institutions in India to prevent and respond to identity-based discrimination through litigation, legislative reform, grassroots activism, and public education. She is the Founder & Director of Schools of Equality, a non-profit organization in India that runs activity-based programs in schools with the aim to shift social attitudes that
perpetuate gender-based violence and other forms of identity-based discrimination.
sujatha baliga’s work is characterized by an equal dedication to people who’ve experienced and caused harm and violence. A former victim advocate and public defender, sujatha is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences about her decades of restorative justice work. She also speaks publicly and inside prisons about her own experiences as a survivor of child sexual abuse and her path to forgiveness. In her most recent position directing the Restorative Justice Project, sujatha helped communities across the U.S. implement restorative justice alternatives to youth criminalization. Today, she’s exploring restorative justice approaches to ending intimate partner and sexual violence. sujatha is a member of the Gyuto Foundation in Richmond, CA, where she leads meditation on Monday nights. She makes her home in Northern California with her partner of 26 years and their 18-year-old child. sujatha was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow and is writing her first book.
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