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Notable Achievements
- Five Officers Convicted. Ensaaf provided key litigation support in the conviction of 5 officers for Jaswant Singh Khalra's abduction and murder.
- International Experts Engaged. Ensaaf partnered with the Nobel-prize winning organization Physicians for Human Rights on a torture and trauma study.
- Recognized as a Ground-breaking Organization. Ensaaf Co-Founders received the Echoing Green fellowship award in 2006.
Elvis Fraser is Deputy Director, Impact Planning and Improvement, Global Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He previously served as the Vice President and Director of the Evaluation and Knowledge Services Group at QED. Dr. Fraser has 20 years of experience in international and domestic development research and program evaluation. His primary expertise is in social science research and evaluation; policy analysis; economic analysis; ethnographic studies; process and impact evaluation; performance monitoring; operations research; and translational research. Dr. Fraser is experienced in working with organizations to design and development knowledge management systems. He is skilled in the application of a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods. Dr. Fraser has implemented research and evaluations of programs across different sectors including: education, workforce development, youth development, health, microenterprise, community development, and the environment. He has served as a senior consultant for different organizations including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, Health and Human Services Agencies, and multiple foundations. Before joining the QED Group, Dr. Fraser was Vice President and Director of the Center for Applied Behavioral and Evaluation Research at the Academy for Educational Development. He was an Assistant Research Professor and Co-Principal Investigator at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Fraser has a doctorate in sociology, with a concentration on international development. He has conducted research and has published on democracy and international human rights, political instability, and the interrelationships among social, political, and economic development. He has experience working in Croatia, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, India, China, South Africa, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Dr. Fraser has working proficiency in Egyptian Arabic and Spanish.
Alison A. Hillman de Velásquez, Chair, is a Program Officer for the Disability Rights Initiative at the Open Society Institute. In collaboration with attorneys from the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), she presented the first petition in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) challenging on-going abuses in a psychiatric institution. She is the primary author of Ruined Lives: Segregation in Argentina's Psychiatric Asylums (2007) and Human Rights & Mental Health in Peru (2004). Ms. Hillman de Velásquez has received awards at international disability film festivals in Canada (2005) and Italy (2007) for her documentary depicting abuses in a psychiatric institution. In 2003, she received the Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Award as an emerging leader in the disability field. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of People with Disabilities.
Jaskaran Kaur, Co-founder and Co-Director, has authored several seminal reports on human rights abuses in India, including Protecting the Killers: A Policy if Impunity in Punjab, India, Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India, and, as a contributing author, Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab. Kaur is a 2006 Echoing Green fellow. Kaur currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Discrimination & National Security Initiative of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2005, Kaur was the recipient of the Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship from Harvard Law School. In 2001, she went to Punjab on a Harvard Human Rights Program Summer Fellowship to study the role of the judiciary in handling habeas corpus petitions filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court by families of the disappeared; her study was published in the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Kaur graduated with distinction from Yale College and Harvard Law School.
Navneet Miller is an account supervisor with Weber Shandwick, a leading global public relations agency. She helps develop and execute strategic communications campaigns for corporate, environmental and healthcare clients. Ms. Miller transitioned to public relations after working for ABC News in New York. She graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in communication and received a joint master’s degree in global media and communication from the London School of Economics and University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication.
Richard J. Wilson is Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the American University, Washington College of Law. He specializes in clinical education, international human rights, asylum law, and criminal law and procedure and has served as an expert witness on international law and the death penalty. In 2004, Professor Wilson received the Pauline Ruyle Moore Scholar Award for scholarship. Professor Wilson was a Peace Corps volunteer and trainer in Panama from 1966-1969, a public defender with the Office of the Illinois Appellate Defender from 1972 to 1980, Director of the Defender Division of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association from 1980 to 1985, and a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia in 1987. He has also directed or taught at several international programs or universities in Chile, Japan, Oxford and the Washington College of Law.