Our Members

The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition is a broad-based coalition of individuals and organizations with an interest in the furtherance of human rights in North Dakota. They work toward the enhancement of human rights in North Dakota through information, education and legislative action.

Workers Interfaith Network unites religious leaders, labor leaders, and workers to address economic disparities by demanding improved wages, benefits, and working conditions assuring that our community’s economic abundance is shared by all.

The Human Rights Center, located in the University of Minnesota Law School, trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers through five primary programs including: applied human rights research; educational tools; the Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program, the Hubert H. Humphrey Human Rights and Law Fellowships and other field and training opportunities; the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library; and through learning communities and partnerships.

Nancy Arnison is serving as the Director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) World Hunger Program. She has previously served as Deputy Director and Director of Policy and Programs at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Program Director of Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, Director of Resource and Development at United Theological Seminary, and as an attorney at Briggs & Morgan Law Firm. Ms. Arnison has served as a lecturer on a number of topics including international human rights, economic and health issues for women and children, and humanitarian law.

Nancy Bothne worked as the Midwest Regional Director for Amnesty International - USA from 1994 to 2004. In that position she served as primary spokesperson for Amnesty International in the Midwest and was charged with developing and implementing strategies for Amnesty's human rights agenda in the region. Beginning Fall 2005, Ms. Bothne will be pursuing a Ph.D. in community psychology at DePaul University, studying how human rights trauma impacts the community as well as individuals, and how communities recover and rebuild themselves following such trauma.

Marcella David is a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, joining the faculty in 1995. She has studied Human Rights and Comparative Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at the Harvard Law School. In that capacity, she participated in an investigatory mission to Iraq, traveled through South Africa, and researched the impact of economic sanctions in both countries. Professor David's research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations.

Sharon Hutchinson is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Over the past 25 years, she has conducted periodic research on war-provoked processes of social and cultural change in southern Sudan. She has served as a monitor on the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team - Sudan as well as an advisor to numerous international humanitarian aid organizations operating in Sudan.

Heinz Klug is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring.

David C. Koelsch is Director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He teaches Immigration Law and lectures frequently on U.S. and Canadian immigration law and policy. Professor Koelsch previously served as Legal Director with Freedom House - Detroit.

Joey Mogul is an attorney who specializes in civil rights cases involving police misconduct, criminal cases brought against individuals engaged in street demonstrations, and other forms of First Amendment expression, and capital defense cases. She is also an adjunct law professor at DePaul University College of Law teaching at the Civil Rights Clinic.