About us

Piya Muqit has been working in the field of human rights since 1997 and is an access to justice specialist. She has worked in the UK, USA, France, Bangladesh and Hong Kong and was most recently the Head of UK policy for UNICEF UK and the Executive Director of Justice Centre Hong Kong. She holds a Master’s degree in Law from LSE and SOAS, and a Master’s degree in Child Studies from King’s College London and is a member of the Bar in both Scotland, having trained at the Faculty of Advocates, and in England and Wales having trained at Doughty Street and Garden Court Chambers.

Elisabeth Wickeri is Executive Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School and Adjunct Professor of Law. She focuses her research and writing on access to justice with a focus on Asia. She is also a Course Director with the International Institute for Humanitarian Affairs. Elisabeth served as Chair of the International Human Rights Committee at the New York City Bar Association from 2012-2015, and currently serves on the Association’s Council on International Affairs, Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law, and Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation. Elisabeth received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an Executive Editor for the Review of Law & Social Change. She received her B.A. in History, cum laude, from Smith College, and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Thomas E. Kellogg is Executive Director of the Center for Asian Law in Georgetown University, where he oversees various programs related to law and governance in Asia. Prior to joining Georgetown Law, Professor Kellogg was Director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. At OSF, he oversaw the expansion of the Foundation’s work in China, and also launched its work on Taiwan and North and South Korea. During his time at OSF, Professor Kellogg focused most closely on civil society development, legal reform, and human rights. He also oversaw work on a range of other issues, including public health, environmental protection, and media development. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, Professor Kellogg was a Senior Fellow at the China Law Center at Yale Law School. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and Hamilton College.

Jenni Trovillion serves as the Secretary and Treasurer of CivicSight’s Board of Directors, bringing her longstanding commitment to human rights and non-profit management expertise to the organization. Jenni has spent more than 20 years working on criminal justice issues in the United States, ranging from anti-death penalty work to improving conditions of confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. Jenni is a Vice President at Impact Justice, a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform, and is lead in their Washington, DC office. Since 2012, Jenni has co-directed the National Resource Center for the Elimination of Prison Rape in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice, and is passionate about ending sexual abuse in confinement.

Jade Anderson is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Australian National University. She has been working in human rights-based development since 2002 for local and international NGOs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South Africa and Hong Kong and with the UNHCR in Australia. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development and a Master’s in International Development.