Category: Board Memebrs

Ms. Moix served as serves as as an Atrocities Prevention Fellow with USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation. As part of USAID’s atrocities prevention team, she has helped to develop new tools and resources, advance learning, support country engagements, and improve the agency’s capacities to prevent and respond to mass atrocities.

Moix brings experience at the national and international levels working to advance a range of peacebuilding and violent conflict prevention issues to the DWAG community. She has worked with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker United Nations Office, Oxfam America, and the Quaker Peace Centre in South Africa.

Moix received her Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and is currently pursuing her PhD at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, where she also serves as Cumbie Fellow with the Genocide Prevention Program.

Well renowned actress, human rights activist, Mia Farrow holds Golden Globes amongst other awards and years of humanitarian activism. She first became UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2000. Working closely with Darfurian and Sudanese refugees, Farrow co-founded the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign which drew attention to China’s support for the government of Sudan.

She also helped bring the tragedies of Darfur to worldwide attention with her documentary Darfur: On Our Watch and by protesting in many forms in unity with the Sudanese and Darfurian people. She continues to work to stop the atrocities in Darfur and Sudan, today.

Professor Kapila is an Indian born and British national. He was a whistle blower during the early stages of the Darfur Genocide. While stationed in Sudan, he was outspoken in his condemnation of the human rights abuses being committed in the western region of Darfur. His activism began after a Darfuri woman came to his office to tell him how she, her daughter and 200 other women in the village of Tawilla had been gang-raped and mostly murdered by government soldiers and paramilitaries.

Professor Kapila has extensive experience in the policy and practice of international development, humanitarian affairs, human rights and diplomacy, with particular expertise in tackling crimes against humanity, disaster and conflict management, and in global public health. His memoir “Against a Tide of Evil”, published in 2013, was nominated for the Best Nonfiction Book of that year. He is also Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester.

Professor Kaplia is also a Special Representative of the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity, and Chair of the Minority Rights Group International. While he was Under Secretary General at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, he served the United Nations in different roles as Special Adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva and then Special Adviser at the UN Mission in Afghanistan.

Mrs. Atherya currently serves as ‎Senior Specialist, Labor and Employment Rights at USAID. And is the former served and the Executive Director of United to End Genocide. With 20 years’ experience in nonprofit leadership, with issue expertise on human rights, trade and development, and social justice issues, Dr. Athreya has a life-long commitment to human rights and ending genocide and human rights atrocities.

With policy analysis and program management skills she has effectively contributed to policy advocacy and human rights. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan.

Donna Robinson is the Managing Partner of Robinson Law Office, LLC, a global law firm and consultancy dedicated to the advancement of human rights. Ms. Robinson is licensed to practice law in Georgia and Florida, and she is Vice Chair of the Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force. She holds a cum laude Juris Doctor from Florida A&M University College of Law and a Masters of Law in International Human Rights from American University Washington College of Law. Prior to launching RLO, Ms. Robinson worked for the World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana.

A Florida native, Ms. Robinson has over thirteen years of experience in human rights advocacy, primarily genocide prevention and human trafficking. While at the University of Central Florida, she founded the Darfur Awareness organization to bring international attention to the genocide in the Darfur region of the Republic of Sudan. She is currently leading efforts to help develop the interim government of Sudan in the wake of Omar al-Bashir’s removal. Since 2008, Ms. Robinson has worked closely with film director Robert Simental, whose documentary “Google Darfur” was submitted to the International Criminal Court as evidence in support of the indictments against Omar al-Bashir.

As a descendant of West Africans who were kidnapped, trafficked, and enslaved in the U.S., Ms. Robinson feels deeply connected to the problem of human trafficking and is determined “to help abolish slavery…for good this time.” In 2009, she became involved in anti-trafficking efforts by working with Florida Abolitionist and the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking. After relocating to Washington, D.C., Ms. Robinson served  as a Law Fellow with Shared Hope International and as the Co-Director of Training for D.C. Stop Modern Slavery.

Mahmoud A. M. Braima is Chair and Cleo Fields Endowed Professor in Mass Communication at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also the Publisher and Executive Editor of alkhabarnewspaper.com, which is a daily online newspaper with African centered orientation. He authored and co-authored over 45 journal publications, abstracts, refereed presentations, and invited papers. He was the Director of Graduate Program in the Department of Mass Communication. He also served as director of assessment in two universities and Interim Director of Planning, Assessment and Institutional Research at Southern University. He has been teaching at Southern University for the last 22 years. Before that, he taught at Southern Illinois University and Philander Smith College in Arkansas.

Dr. Braima is a native of El-Fashir, capital of North Darfur. They originally come from Tamnana and Shagra villages west of El -Fashir. He attended Al Mouzdawija Elementary school, Al-Shamalia middle school and Darfur high school, all in Al-Fashir, where he graduated in 1975. He then taught middle school. He attended King Saud University at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and graduated in 1982 with a degree in journalism.

Dr. Braima came to the U.S.A. in 1984 to do his graduate education. He completed a Master’s Degree in Journalism in 1985 at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky and completed his Ph.D. in Journalism in 1993 at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois.

Professionally, he was a journalist, doing reporting, photojournalism, and copy editing. He also worked as a graphic artist designing advertising. And for the last 26 years has been professor, researcher and college administrator.

Dr. Braima, has been a strong advocate for Darfur since the start of Genocidal atrocities in the Western Region of the Sudan in several capacities including President of the Darfur Association in the USA, Board of Directors member at Save Darfur Coaltion, and board member at United to End Genocide.