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Alice Miller
Title: Lecturer in Residence; Senior Fellow, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Office: 337C Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-642-2253
Fax: 510-643-2672
Email Address: amiller@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Catharine Schultz
Previously, Ali Miller was an Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, teaching in the Columbia's Schools of Law, Public Health and International and Public Affairs. Ali's past work includes co-Directing the Center for the Study of Human Rights and the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia University, School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University from 1989. In 1998-1999, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health. She is a visiting professor at the Sexuality and Rights Institute, Pune, India, for two weeks each year, and at the International School, Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for one week each July.
Ali has over 20 years of policy and advocacy experience with non-governmental organizations, including directing the women's rights program at the Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights) [at the Law Group, 1993-98]; Amnesty International USA's Program against the Death Penalty [1991-1993], and co-founding AIUSA's programs on women's rights, and LGBT rights programs. She continues to work with local and international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and local and national NGOs such as the the Women's Institute for Leadership Development (USA), and CREA and TARSHI (India) on human rights issues in the US and globally.
Her scholarship and policy work has addressed gendering humanitarian law, safe migration and anti-trafficking policies, criminal law, and specifically abolition of the death penalty, women's rights, sexual rights, sexual and reproductive health and LGBT rights.
Ali publishes regularly in both scholarly and activist venues on these topics. She completed her B.A. at Radcliffe College/Harvard University, graduating in 1979, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated in 1985 from the University of Washington School of Law.
Education:
B.A., Radcliffe College (1979)J.D., University of Washington School of Law (1985)
