Institute Core Team and Staff
Institute faculty include award winning authors, educators, and journalists who partner with one of the most diverse student bodies in the country and some of the most impressive organizations in the region to inform policy and practice according to international human rights law, standards, and scholarship.
Michael Dao, Ph.D.,
Director
Assistant Professor & Associate Chair
Department of Kinesiology
Office: Spartan Complex 113
Phone: 408.924.2904
Email: michael.dao@sjsu.edu
Research Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Email: marie.haverfield@sjsu.edu
At-large Core Team Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health
Email: anji.buckner@sjsu.edu
Soma de Bourbon, Ph.D.
At-large Core Team Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Email: soma.debourbon@sjsu.edu
At-large Core Team Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies
Email: john.halushka@sjsu.edu
At-large Core Team Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies
Email: grace.howard@sjsu.edu
Megan Iaconis
Graduate Assistant
Graduate Student, Department of Occupational Therapy
Associate Professor, Department of Justice Studies
Email: edith.kinney@sjsu.edu
Supervising Administrator Dean
College of Health and Human Sciences
Email: audrey.shillington@sjsu.edu
At-large Core Team Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies
Email: jodie.warren@sjsu.edu
Professor, Department of Public Health & Recreation
Email: miranda.worthen@sjsu.edu
