Brian Byrd is a former Program Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation's Communication for Social Change program. He currently works as a Senior Government Relations Advisor to a variety of corporate and nonprofit entities.
Advisory Committee
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Mercedes Dorreti is a co-founder and full time member of Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense (EAAF), an organization that applies forensic science to human rights investigations worldwide that has been a partner of WITNESS since 1994.
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Steven Goldberg has represented WITNESS as outside counsel from its early stages as a project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He is a partner in the business practice group of Baker & Hostetler LLP and national co-leader of the firm’s M&A practice team.
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Diederik Lohman is a senior researcher with the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. He has worked extensively on police torture, human rights abuses committed in the armed conflict in Chechnya, and violent hazing practices in the Russian armed forces.
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Juan Mendez, a native of Argentina, has dedicated his legal career to the defense of human rights and has a long and distinguished record of advocacy throughout the Americas.
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Patrick Montgomery is a leading authority on the licensing of stock footage and photographs. He is the founder of Archive Films/Archive Photos, an historical stock film and photo agency which he sold to The Image Bank, a division of Eastman Kodak, in 1997.
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Annie Ohayon is the curator of Annie O, a travel and design gift store in the Hotel on Rivington in New York. She is the former president of Annie O. Media, a public relations and media consulting firm specializing in artist development within the music and entertainment industry.
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Drazen Pantic is the founder of OpenNet, the Internet department of the pioneering independent media organization Radio B92 in Belgrade. Presently, he serves as Co-Director of Location One, a digital arts gallery in New York. Drazen is a founding member of the Open Source Streaming Alliance, collective blog Unmediated and Direct Video Network.
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Eli Pariser is Executive Director of MoveOn.org, where he directed the campaign against the war in Iraq which nearly tripled the organization's membership.
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Izhar Patkin was born in Israel, 1955. He is a visual artist known for working in narrative form. His work not only tells stories but deals with reinventing the structure and technique of visual narrative itself. The results are paintings and sculptures in diverse and innovative media, making imaginative use of materials and highly complex visual metaphors. Patkin’s work is included in many permanent collections, including those of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. He currently lives and works in New York City.
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Harry Pearce is a graphic designer and founding partner of Lippa Pearce Design, one of the U.K.’s most respected design companies. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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D.J. Ravindran is a human rights lawyer and founder of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum - Asia). He currently serves as Director of the Human Rights Office of the U.N. Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET).
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Tim Robbins is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and director renowned known for such films as "Short Cuts" and "The Shawshank Redemption" and for his Academy Award-winning performance in "Mystic River." He is actively involved in social and political causes.
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Sebastião Salgado is an exemplar of the tradition of "concerned photography." Originally trained as an economist, Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize for his work on behalf of the world's oppressed.
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Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning actor best known for her portrayal of Sister Helen Prejean in the film "Dead Man Walking." She is also well known for her commitment to human rights.
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Paula Silver, the former President of Marketing and Publicity at Columbia Pictures, and the marketing visionary behind such recent feature film hits as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, synergizes complex marketing strategies with grassroots campaigns to support her projects. President/Founder of Beyond the Box Productions, Silver utilizes a multi-media approach to develop, produce and promote socially conscious projects through popular culture.
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Ian V. Rowe is a Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on the strategy to achieve large-scale improvements in college completion rates, especially with low-income young adults. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for MTV, where he oversaw MTV’s ‘pro-social' multi-media campaigns to engage, educate and empower millions of young people to take action on some of the greatest issues facing their generation, including climate change, voting and civic engagement, sexual health, education, and global disease and poverty. Prior to the Gates Foundation and MTV, he was the White House Director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps, the President's initiative on volunteer service created to encourage every American to make a lifetime commitment of at least two years in service to others. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, an Echoing Green Fellow, a Harvard Social Enterprise Fellow and was also founder and president of Third Millennium Media, a media consulting business. He spent two years with Teach for America, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Cornell University.
WITNESS presents a fine art print edition with internationally renowned visual artists.
